Comments on: Getting Started with CMake

By: Nathan Crock

Nathan Crock — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:51:15 +0000

Hey Arjun,

Thanks for reading my article. You say link, so I assume you’re trying to plug some shared or dynamic library into a current project. (You can always compile a library with CMake before this linking example if it hasn’t yet been compiled).

Say you’ve got your target program “TARGET.cpp”,
CMAKE EXAMPLE: add_executable( target TARGET.cpp )
and your library “LIBRARY.so”,
CMAKE EXAMPLE: set( LIBS LIBRARY.so )

Linking your target with your libraries is a one liner.
target_link_libraries( target LIBS )

Hope that helps

By: arjun

arjun — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:40:40 +0000

Hi Nathan,

Thank you very much for your tutorial which helped me start with CMake. In my project, I would like to Link 2 files from different directories and I am unable to find the proper command. Can you help me with a command and example.

Thanks in advance,

Arjun

By: Komal

Komal — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:44:00 +0000

Nice article. Simple and short one is great for quick start.

By: Bernhard

Bernhard — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:09:24 +0000

Thanks for your tutorial. It’s too simple for my needs but it is the first tutorial I’ve read about CMake and it provides a nice overview.

Best
Bernhard

By: Nathan Crock

Nathan Crock — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:20:02 +0000

That’s interesting. I do not have a similar problem. Perhaps try adding this to your CMakeLists.txt file

set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Debug)

By: PierreLI

PierreLI — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:12:01 +0000

Hi, thanks for your article, I read your great article and try your example in my PC under Ubuntu10.04. However, I have a question, when I’m building the example file with cmake, I cannt use gdb to debug it, as: “gdb fibonacci”, it reminds that “no debugging symbols found…”. Can u tell
me why such things happened? Thank you!

By: Nathan Crock

Nathan Crock — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 03:58:10 +0000

You’re right. I share and contribute what I know and what I’m good at, unfortunately that is not windows. I’m sure there will be a windows expert out there that will write an excellent intro to Cmake. Perhaps it will be you!

By: kevin chan

kevin chan — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 03:54:19 +0000

Thanks for your simple description of Cmake for the starters. But it is a pity that you did not give out an example on the usage of cmake in MS windows.

By: Alan Koski

Alan Koski — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:59:06 +0000

I thought it was a very good tutorial. It was the first one I looked at to learn cmake and it taught me a lot. thanks.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:00:37 +0000

PS — thanks for the good little quick start-up tutorial on CMake, I know that was your purpose and it worked for me.