I have a Project A that exports a static library as a target: install(TARGETS alib DESTINATION lib EXPORT project_a-targets) install(EXPORT project_a-targets DESTINATION lib/alib) Now I want to ...

I am building a project with Cmake and use FetchContent to manage dependencies. For several reasons I cannot depend on system-wide installed packages, so this package helps a lot. It allows me to d...

I am trying to add Postgresql as a dependency for my project for which I am using ExternalProject module to download the source from github and build, but the build step fails when running from cma...

The URL understood by the git command can be in the format HTTPS or SSH. In CMake, using ExternalProject_Add for the specified GIT_REPOSITORY any URL understood by the git command may be used. Usin...

I am trying to use ExternalProject_add() to download/install dependencies. It installs fine, but I can't figure out how to actually link the libraries after they are downloaded. I want to call ta...

Is there are proper way to find a library (via FindPackage()) which was built with ExternalProject_Add()? The problem is that CMake cannot find the library at CMake-time because the external libra...

I have a git-bare-repository on my desktop and I would like to clone it with CMake. My repository has this path C:\Users\demoUser\Desktop\learnGIT\prog. My CMakeLists.txt looks like this: cmake_mi...

The CMake's ExternalProject allows to define how to an external project is going to be downloaded, configured, built and installed. All whose steps are going to be performed at the build time. I w...

I'm trying to add an Automake project as an external project. The Automake configure script (usually run with ./configure) contains a relative path to a resource file. The file is found when I run ...

This is probably quite simple. I have an Android project that uses NDK. I will like to include the opus source code in the native code. I have tried using the ExternalProject_Add property of CMak...

One of the libraries I'm using is giving a cmake warning for the developers of it. I'm trying to suppress that warning in my ExternalProject_Add with -Wno-dev I tried setting it at: CMAKE_ARGS ...

I have following CMakeLists.txt file: cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.2 FATAL_ERROR) project (utils VERSION 1.0.0 LANGUAGES CXX) ExternalProject_Add(json-c GIT_REPOSITORY "https://github.com/...

Question summary. I have a project A that I build using CMake, which compiles cleanly. However, when I pull A into another project B using CMake's ExternalProject_Add command, compilation fails w...

Let's say I have the following project setup with these dependencies: MainProject ├─ Dependency_1 │ └─ Dependency_2 └─ Dependency_2 These dependencies are handled in MainProject and Dependency_1...

It can be a pain to refrence ExternalProjects when their install targets are messed up. So one may want to build and install ExternalProjects once before generating main project files for given pro...

I have the following code in one of my CMakeLists.txt: FIND_PACKAGE(sphinxbase) if (${SPHINXBASE_FOUND}) INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${SPHINXBASE_INCLUDE_DIR}/sphinxbase/) else () ExternalProject_Add( ...

First off, I'm relatively new to cmake. I'm trying to use cmake to build a project with a single external dependency. I specify the INSTALL_DIR for the external project to be CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, ...

I don't understand the usage of INSTALL_DIR in ExternalProject_Add command. I try to use it but it does not seem to work. Here is an example of a CMakeLists.txt, using Eigen library which compiles ...

I would like to build a third-party project that already has CMake as part of my project's CMake strips. ExternalProject_Add is for this purpose, but I have found it can only be made to work with a...

I'm building an external library using CMake with ExternalProject_Add. I've used the answer here to generate the following (which captures command line input to CMake in order to pass it to the Ext...

I want to build openssl and link my project against it. In my project, I have a library called net which is the part that uses openssl. So in my net\CMakeList, I added include_directories( ../ +...

I am building lua as an external project and I want to use my own CMakeLists.txt instead of the bundled Makefile. This is what I have in my main CMakeLists.txt: include(ExternalProject) set(lua_RE...