[CMake] Separating build from source

motes motes mort.motes at gmail.com
Sat May 8 20:01:11 EDT 2010


Solved. Just needed to specify the full path to the .cpp file in the
CMakeList.txt file.

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:41 AM, motes motes <mort.motes at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to build an application which use the itk library based on
> the following structure:
>
> code/
> code/src
> code/src/MyItkProject
> code/build
> code/build/release
> code/build/debug
> CMakeLists.txt
>
> I have located my CMakeLists.txt file in the 'code' dir where I
> specify the necessary includes. I have my main.cpp file in:
>
> code/src/MyItkProject/main.cpp
>
>
> I have extracted and build the itk library in another location and set
> up the above CMakeLists.txt file to ask the user to specify the build
> dir with:
>
> cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)
> PROJECT(MyItkProject)
>
> FIND_PATH(PROJECT_HOME REQUIRED)
>
> FIND_PATH(ITK_DIR REQUIRED)
>
> # Find ITK.
> FIND_PACKAGE(ITK REQUIRED)
> IF( ITK_FOUND )
>  INCLUDE( ${ITK_USE_FILE} )
> ELSE( ITK_FOUND )
>  MESSAGE( FATAL_ERROR "Cannot build without ITK.  Please set ITK_DIR." )
> ENDIF( ITK_FOUND )
>
> I then run ccmake from the code/build/release dir like:
>
> code/build/release$ ccmake ../../
>
> After specifying the necessary paths (and Release as build type) I run
> 'configure' followed by 'generate' but get the error:
>
> CMake Error in CMakeLists.txt
>  Cannot find source file "main.cpp". Tried extensions ....
>
> Do I need to add another CMakeLists.txt file in the dir
> code/src/MyItkProject which specifies the main.cpp file?
>


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