CMake Cookbook

How to do it

These two new files will also have to be compiled and we have to modify CMakeLists.txt accordingly. However, in this example we want to compile them first into a library, and not directly into the executable:

1. Create a new target, this time a static library. The name of the library will be the name of the target and the sources are listed as follows:

add_library(message   STATIC    Message.hpp    Message.cpp  )

2. The creation of the target for the hello-world executable is unmodified:

add_executable(hello-world hello-world.cpp) 

3. Finally, tell CMake that the library target has to be linked into the executable target:

target_link_libraries(hello-world message)

4. We can configure and build with the same commands as before. This time a ...