I am trying to build a cross platform OpenGL application, which means building and including multiple libraries (glfw, glbinding, glm, etc.) Because my application is cross platform, it makes sense to use cmake to generate all the build scripts and not have to muck about with them myself. I am attempting to target Windows and Linux specifically.
A main feature that I need is that the libraries I need are not installed on the host system. Furthermore, they cannot be installed (due to administrative reasons). What I need is to build these libraries and then build my application.
I am mostly working on Windows using Visual Studio 2017, which has cmake support included. Currently, I have attempted to build these libraries myself, however I am having many issues getting find_package to do the right thing.
My directory structure looks like this:
project/
|-src/
|- my sources for my application
|-include/
|- my header files
|-external/
|-glfw-3.2.1/
|-glbinding-2.1.4/
|-glfw-build/
|-glbinidng-build/
So I am attempting to build the external libraries and use them in my application. I am also attempting to follow cmake best practices. My CMakeLists.txt currently looks like this:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)
project(glTestProj)
set(CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH "external/")
find_package(glfw3 3.2 REQUIRED)
find_package(glbinding REQUIRED)
add_executable(glTest src/main.cpp)
target_compile_features(glTest PRIVATE cxx_std_17)
target_compile_options(glTest PRIVATE -Wall -Wextra)
target_link_libraries(
glTest
glfw
glbinding::glbinding
)
The libraries in question (glfw and glbinding) both have instructions on including them via cmake, however I am running into this issue:
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:6 (find_package):
By not providing "Findglfw3.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "glfw3", but
CMake did not find one.
Could not find a package configuration file provided by "glfw3" (requested
version 3.2) with any of the following names:
glfw3Config.cmake
glfw3-config.cmake
Add the installation prefix of "glfw3" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
"glfw3_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If "glfw3"
provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been
installed.
Related
I'm at the very first day of Qt + Cmake and Conan, trying to make things work. I'm not using qmake because I'll integrate everything into a bigger project using cmake.
By following QT's tutorial, I figured out that I need to compile QT macros, and for that there's a useful AUTOMOC CMake property, as suggested here.
The point is that it's making me fail cmake builds.
My conanfile.txt:
[requires]
qt/5.15.2
[generators]
cmake
My CMakeLists.txt:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.20)
project(qttest)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 20)
set_target_properties(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES AUTOMOC TRUE)
set (PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src)
include(${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/conanbuildinfo.cmake)
conan_basic_setup()
add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME} src/main.cpp)
target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} ${CONAN_LIBS})
with the following output:
CMake Warning (dev) in CMakeLists.txt:
AUTOGEN: No valid Qt version found for target qttest. AUTOMOC disabled.
Consider adding:
find_package(Qt<QTVERSION> COMPONENTS Core)
to your CMakeLists.txt file.
This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.
ouch, but adding the find doesn't make things better:
CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:6 (find_package):
By not providing "FindQt5.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5", but
CMake did not find one.
Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5" with any of
the following names:
Qt5Config.cmake
qt5-config.cmake
Actually the project compiles, Qt is there in its conan dir:
matteo#MacBook-Pro-de-matteo 96a68a791abfc7a246f2bc28aa2f6fc210be0f9f % cd ~/.conan/data/qt
matteo#MacBook-Pro-de-matteo qt % ls
5.15.2 6.2.2
matteo#MacBook-Pro-de-matteo qt %
how could I enable it, or make things easier to compile it along with cmake?
You need to tell CMake, where to find Qt.
So, as CMake suggests by itself:
find_package(Qt5 COMPONENTS Core)
for the most basic stuff, you might want to add some of the other components later.
Depending on the system you are working on and your Qt installation, you need to tell CMake where to search for the package configuration files (second error message). CMake has some default directories, where it looks for these files, but obviously, there is none. On Linux, this can be solved by installing Qt with a package manager (this will install the CMake config files to one of the Qt default locations). If you are on Windows or if you installed Qt to a different location, this can be solved by providing the path with the PREFIX_PATH-variable.
cmake -B $BUILD_DIR -S $SOURCE_DIR -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$QT_INSTALL_PATH/5.15.2/$ARCHITECTURE $OTHER_OPTIONS
(You can have different versions installed in the same installation path, that's why Qt adds an other folder with the version number. And you can have different compilers/architectures. On Windows for example, you might have a mingw73_32 and a msvc2017 folder to choose.)
As already mentioned in the comments, a project is no CMake target. CMake targets are either libraries (add_library), executables (add_executable) or custom targets (add_custom_target); the project is not. If you want to set the AUTOMOC property target wise, that's ok and even suggested by CMake, but you can also set it globally by using:
set(CMAKE_AUTOMOC ON)
I'm attempting to build an application using the AWS IOT device sdk for C++.
I was able to clone, build and install the library with CMake and Visual Studio. Now I'm trying to include the IotShadow library into my test application through CMake.
I've included the package in my CMakeLists.txt file as follows and included the path the library install through the CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH variable.
find_package(IotShadow-cpp REQUIRED)
target_link_libraries(TestApp IotShadow-cpp)
CMake runs fine and things seem to be setup. However when I attempt to build, the IotShadow header files are not found. I've confirmed that IotShadow-cpp_DIR is correct and that the header files do exist. I'm not sure where to go from here. Has anyone successfully used the SDK on windows?
Looks like the target for find_package is correct but the target for target_link_libraries needs to be AWS::IotShadow-cpp.
The following seemed to work for me:
find_package(IotShadow-cpp REQUIRED)
target_link_libraries(TestApp AWS::IotShadow-cpp)
I'm trying to start writing my Qt project inside JetBrains' Clion but I need to link some libraries in my Cmake file first. There's no problem when trying to find packages like Qt5Core, Qt5Widgets, Qt5Gui but when it come to finding Qt5Charts an error is thrown:
By not providing "FindQt5Charts.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has asked CMake to find a package configuration file
provided by "Qt5Charts", but CMake did not find one.
Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5Charts"
with any of the following names:
Qt5ChartsConfig.cmake
qt5charts-config.cmake
Add the installation prefix of "Qt5Charts" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or
set "Qt5Charts_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above
files. If "Qt5Charts" provides a separate development package or
SDK, be sure it has been installed.
This is my CMake file right now.
All packages are installed via the Qt's Linux(ubuntu) maintanence tool.
Any ideas how to help Cmake find the Charts module ?
Using the following and see if it helps:
sudo apt install libqt5charts5-dev
Src: https://stackoverflow.com/a/46765025
Typically when including Qt5 in a project I use the follow basic script for CMake, though I should note I haven't tested this on Linux.
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10.0 FATAL_ERROR)
project(<YOUR_PROJECT_NAME>)
find_package(Qt5 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Core Gui Widgets Charts)
# set your project sources and headers
set(project_sources src/blah.cpp)
set(project_headers include/headers/blah.h)
# wrap your qt based classes with qmoc
qt5_wrap_cpp(project_source_moc ${project_headers})
# add your build target
add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME} ${project_sources} ${project_headers} ${project_source_moc})
# link to Qt5
target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME}
PUBLIC
Qt5::Core
Qt5::Gui
Qt5::Widgets
Qt5::Charts)
# require C++ 14
target_compile_features(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC cxx_std_14)
When configuring your project via cmake, you just need to pass in the path to you qt5 installation directory (cmake variable name is Qt5_DIR) that contains the Qt5Config.cmake file and then cmake should be able to find the rest of the components that you request.
Also double check that Qt5Charts was installed, not sure if it's installed by default.
Maybe try this?
sudo apt install libqt5charts5-dev
Hello I need to work with OpenGL and want to create my project in Clion. But Clion cannot compile and run my projects because of the libraries I need to include. I can create my own makefile and run the program in terminal, but I want to do it in the IDE. How can I make this happen?
First make sure you installed all libraries correctly using the compiler you configured in clion/cmake. Assuminf you have a fresh CMakeLists.txt like
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3.2)
project(MyGL CPP)
add_executable(demo-run main.cpp)
For linking your libraries you need two things. First tell the compiler where to find the include files and second which libraries to link. You could just hard code you local installation like
target_link_libraries(demo-run path/to/glfw.lib path/to/opengl.lib path/to/jpeg.lib ...)
target_include_directories(demo-run PRIVATE path/to/glfw/include path/to/opengl/include path/to/jpeg/include ...)
however this is not very portable and if you want to work with another compiler or on another machine your project file will fail. Instead you can use the package system of cmake
find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
pkg_search_module(GLFW REQUIRED glfw3)
find_package(JPEG REQUIRED)
find_package(GLEW REQUIRED)
find_package (OpenGL REQUIRED)
find_package (GLM REQUIRED)
target_link_libraries(demo-run ${GLFW_LIBRARIES} ${GLEW_LIBRARIES} ${JPEG_LIBRARIES} ${OPENGL_LIBRARIES})
target_include_directories(demo-run PRIVATE ${GLFW_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${GLEW_INCLUDE_DIR} ${JPEG_INCLUDE_DIR} ${OPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR} ${GLM_INCLUDE_DIR})
The glfw part is a bit tricky and works only on linux i guess see http://www.glfw.org/docs/3.0/build.html.
This code is not tested at all and you may need to specify some enviroment variables so cmake can find the packages or provide additional find scripts like https://github.com/lighttransport/nanogi/blob/master/cmake/FindGLM.cmake.
I would recommend to use the CMake build tool which does the work generating Makefiles for you and is also directly supported by clion. When you open the directory containing a CMakeLists.txt (CMake Project File) with clion, it should be automatically be loaded and compiled (if not just hit build)
A very simple example CMake project would look like this
cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.8.9)
project (OpenGl-Stuff)
include_directories(src)
add_executable(your-binary src/your-code.c src/your-code.h)
target_link_libraries(your-binary opengl)
# target_link_libraries will search for libopengl on standard system paths,
# maybe the library is not called libopengl, then you have to adjust the name above
this cmake project will generate the binary for you and link it against opengl
i'm trying to use SFML's library with CLion for a school project. I'm still not confident with programming and i am new to Clion.
After having download the library from SFML official site i read some tutorials, but i am a bit confused:
https://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/2.4/
Infact in the Getting Started section there are two voice that concern me: "Compiling with Cmake" and "..Code::Blocks (MinGW).
Well i tryed both but with no results, then i landed here.
I saw a topic that helped a bit configure SFML for clion (windows)
so i tried to follow the steps suggested.
The library is in C:\SFML-2.4.2
I copied FindSFML.cmake in SFMLProjects, located in C:\Users\Ludovico\ (the same path of the folder ClionProjects)
Then i gave it a try
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.6)
project(provaSfml)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
set(SOURCE_FILES main.cpp)
add_executable(provaSfml ${SOURCE_FILES})
set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/SFMLProjects")
link_directories(C:/SFML-2.4.2/bin)
find_package(SFML REQUIRED system window graphics network audio)
if (SFML_FOUND)
include_directories(${SFML_INCLUDE_DIR})
target_link_libraries(provaSfml ${SFML_LIBRARIES})
endif ()
These are the error messages
"C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\CLion 2016.3.2\bin\cmake\bin\cmake.exe" - DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -G "CodeBlocks - MinGW Makefiles" C:\Users\Ludovico\CLionProjects\provaSfml
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:10 (find_package):
By not providing "FindSFML.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "SFML", but
CMake did not find one.
Could not find a package configuration file provided by "SFML" with any of
the following names:
SFMLConfig.cmake
sfml-config.cmake
Add the installation prefix of "SFML" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
"SFML_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If "SFML"
provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been
installed.
I'm thinking i did some mistakes even in the organization of folder...
can someone tell me some advice in order to clean the mess i have in my head?
What can i do to fix these problems?