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CMake Cookbook
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CMake Cookbook

by Radovan Bast, Roberto Di Remigio
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
606 pages
14h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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How it works

find_package is a wrapper command for CMake modules written for discovering and setting up packages. These modules contain CMake commands to identify packages in standard locations on the system. The files for the CMake modules are called Find<name>.cmake and the commands they contain will be run internally when a call to find_package(<name>) is issued.

In addition to actually discovering the requested package on your system, find modules also set up a handful of useful variables, reflecting what was actually found, which you can use in your own CMakeLists.txt. In the case of the Python interpreter, the relevant module is FindPythonInterp.cmake, which is shipped with CMake, and sets the following variables:

  • PYTHONINTERP_FOUND ...
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ISBN: 9781788470711