CMake手册---添加库(二)

2. 添加一个库

For this tutorial we will put the library into a subdirectory called MathFunctions. This directory already contains a header file, MathFunctions.h, and a source file mysqrt.cxx. The source file has one function called mysqrt that provides similar functionality to the compiler’s sqrt function.

# 添加库
add_library(MathFunctions mysqrt.cxx)

To make use of the new library we will add an add_subdirectory() call in the top-level CMakeLists.txt file so that the library will get built. We add the new library to the executable, and add MathFunctions as an include directory so that the mqsqrt.h header file can be found. The last few lines of the top-level CMakeLists.txt file should now look like:

# add the MathFunctions library
add_subdirectory(MathFunctions)

# add the executable
add_executable(Tutorial tutorial.cxx)

target_link_libraries(Tutorial PUBLIC MathFunctions)

# add the binary tree to the search path for include files
# so that we will find TutorialConfig.h
target_include_directories(Tutorial PUBLIC
                          "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}"
                          "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/MathFunctions"
                          )
Now let us make the MathFunctions library optional. While for the tutorial there really isn’t any need to do so, for larger projects this is a common occurrence. The first step is to add an option to the top-level CMakeLists.txt file.

option(USE_MYMATH "Use tutorial provided math implementation" ON)

# configure a header file to pass some of the CMake settings
# to the source code
configure_file(TutorialConfig.h.in TutorialConfig.h)

This option will be displayed in the cmake-gui and ccmake with a default value of ON that can be changed by the user. This setting will be stored in the cache so that the user does not need to set the value each time they run CMake on a build directory.

The next change is to make building and linking the MathFunctions library conditional. To do this we change the end of the top-level CMakeLists.txt file to look like the following:

if(USE_MYMATH)
  add_subdirectory(MathFunctions)
  list(APPEND EXTRA_LIBS MathFunctions)
  list(APPEND EXTRA_INCLUDES "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/MathFunctions")
endif()

# add the executable
add_executable(Tutorial tutorial.cxx)

target_link_libraries(Tutorial PUBLIC ${EXTRA_LIBS})

# add the binary tree to the search path for include files
# so that we will find TutorialConfig.h
target_include_directories(Tutorial PUBLIC
                           "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}"
                           ${EXTRA_INCLUDES}
                           )
Note the use of the variable EXTRA_LIBS to collect up any optional libraries to later be linked into the executable. The variable EXTRA_INCLUDES is used similarly for optional header files. This is a classic approach when dealing with many optional components, we will cover the modern approach in the next step.

The corresponding changes to the source code are fairly straightforward. First, in tutorial.cxx, include the MathFunctions.h header if we need it:

#ifdef USE_MYMATH
#  include "MathFunctions.h"
#endif