CMake Help (losing my mind :(()

Hello AllVery basic question that I spent many hours. I am using codeblock IDE and cmake. I have a file layout as "documents/exp/asrc.cpp" and "documents/exp/aheader.h". Source and header files in the same folder. The problem is no matter what I tried in CMakeLists, Cmake-gui did not see the header files.I tried almot everything like

Code:

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cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.4)
project(aproject)
include_directories(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR})
include_directories(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR})
target_include_directories(atarget ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR})
add_executable(app asrc.cpp)

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To be honest I did not understand anything about cmake as there is not much resource and completely angry as it is a very basic step :mad:. It only got .cpp (printed to json-output) . Something is missing ??

First of all, let me assure you that your anger is warranted. CMake documentation is an utter mess (the entire world agrees), and CMake itself doesn't have a good approach/syntax either – it's just that it's the best choice right now due to inertia.

Now regarding Codeblocks, is it even intended that you manually edit your CMakeLists.txt? Doesn't the IDE take care of that, interfering with your manual edits?

Regarding your example, try:

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cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)

project(foo)

add_executable(app
    "documents/exp/aheader.h"
    "documents/exp/asrc.cpp"
)

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If you want your header files recognized as dependencies, you need to add them to your target. This is not necessary for successful compilation though (the .cpp implementation suffices)

Here are two resources that might help in the future regarding CMake:

• An Introduction to Modern CMake * Modern CMake
• CGold: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the CMake — CGold 0.1 documentation

Thanks but did not worked. I tried other stuff but none worked like :

Code:

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cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1)
project(my_project)
set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS ON)
add_library(calclib STATIC mystruct.h struct_cagir.cpp)
add_executable(my_exe struct_cagir.cpp)
target_link_libraries(my_exe PUBLIC calclib)

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Originally Posted by Guest

First of all, let me assure you that your anger is warranted. CMake documentation is an utter mess (the entire world agrees), and CMake itself doesn't have a good approach/syntax either – it's just that it's the best choice right now due to inertia.Now regarding Codeblocks, is it even intended that you manually edit your CMakeLists.txt? Doesn't the IDE take care of that, interfering with your manual edits?Regarding your example, try:

Code:

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cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)
project(foo)
add_executable(app    "documents/exp/aheader.h"    "documents/exp/asrc.cpp")

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If you want your header files recognized as dependencies, you need to add them to your target. This is not necessary for successful compilation though (the .cpp implementation suffices)Here are two resources that might help in the future regarding CMake:

• An Introduction to Modern CMake * Modern CMake
• CGold: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the CMake — CGold 0.1 documentation

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Did you pass the paths relative to your CMakeLists.txt as I showed in my example? Also, what do you do to invoke CMake? Looks like one needs to create the Codeblocks project through the CLI first, Codeblocks cannot itself invoke CMake.

Also, why don't you just use Codeblocks without touching CMake?