使用add_subdirectory构建glog和gflags的问题

问题描述

使用cmake构建项目，希望使用glog记录日志，但是glog默认依赖于gflags，所以将其作为子模块添加到主项目，代码如下：

add_subdirectory(../third_party/gflags)
add_subdirectory(../third_party/glog)

出现问题：

CMake Error: install(EXPORT "glog-targets" ...) includes target "glog" which requires target "gflags_nothreads_static" that is not in any export set.
CMake Error in D:/my/MiniNN/third_party/glog/CMakeLists.txt:
  export called with target "glog" which requires target
  "gflags_nothreads_static" that is not in this export set, but in multiple
  other export sets:
  D:/my/MiniNN/src/build/third_party/gflags/gflags-nonamespace-targets.cmake,
  D:/my/MiniNN/src/build/third_party/gflags/gflags-targets.cmake.

  An exported target cannot depend upon another target which is exported
  multiple times.  Consider consolidating the exports of the
  "gflags_nothreads_static" target to a single export.

问题原因

实际是出现了2个导出集，chatgpt也没能给出一个可行的办法，上网查了查，很多讨论：

• https://github.com/google/glog/issues/198
• https://github.com/google/glog/issues/251
• https://github.com/google/glog/issues/381
• https://github.com/gflags/gflags/issues/279依然开启
• https://github.com/google/glog/issues/560

其中，单独编译glog不通过，因为依赖gtest，梳理好依赖之后，又依赖gflags，有点麻烦，再添加gflags，就出现了上面的问题，整的有点麻烦。

单独编译gflags，是可以编译通过的，gflags被当作子模块编译的时候，自己也提到了：

## When this project is a subproject (GFLAGS_IS_SUBPROJECT is TRUE), the default
## settings are such that only the static single-threaded library is built without
## installation of the gflags files. The "gflags::gflags" target is in this case an ALIAS
## library target for the "gflags_nothreads_static" library target. Targets which
## depend on the gflags library should link to the "gflags::gflags" library target.

问题解决

有以下几个方法供参考：

1. 使用ExternalProject
2. 设置关闭gflags：

set(WITH_GFLAGS OFF)
add_subdirectory(../third_party/glog)

参考资料

以上链接