[CMake] Subprojects and Cmake?

[Juhani Karlsson]

Thanks for the fast answer Nicholas!

Superproject sounds good to my ears!
I`m going to try the ExternalProject_Add again. I think I missed something
essential when I tried to use it!
NanoGui builds fine as is - so Its just me f****ng things up ; )

Thanks,
- J

On 6 March 2016 at 20:04, Nicholas Braden <nicholas11braden at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If you are using the add_subdirectory approach, I believe you should
> not be using find_package and instead you just need to use
> target_link_libraries to have everything handled for you. Another
> approach would be making a superproject that builds your dependencies
> and your own project via ExternalProject_Add - this generally works
> well especially since it allows the user to easily customize the build
> of each dependency or use an existing install, and you don't have to
> worry about name collisions.
>
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Juhani Karlsson
> <juhani.karlsson at talvi.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I`m having beginner problems how to include another Cmake project into
> > another properly! (NanoGui)
> >
> > At the moment I`m using simply the add_subdirectory() command and then
> > target_link_libraries to link it to the project.
> > Seems to build fine, but when I try to include NanoGui in the project
> cannot
> > find it correctly. What is the preferred workflow for this?
> >
> > I`m using Clion, GCC and built in CMake 3.3.
> >
> > Be gentle - total CMake newbie here : ) Image of the project and
> > CMakeLists.txt in the attachments!
> >
> > I hope you can help!
> > Thanks,
> > - Juhani
> >
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juhani.karlsson at talvi.fi
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