Question

I am now building a dynamic library with CMake, and the problem I now meet with is related to adding files for the library. The structure of my project is as follows:

----src
     |
  thrid_party---boost_1_50_0----boost
     |       ---   |        ----libs
     |       ---   |        ---- | --- filesystem
     |       ---   |        ---- | ---   |  ------src

My CMakeLists.txt file is located in the src directory, and the contents of the file are as follows:

cmake_minimum_required( VERSION 2.6 )
project (temp)
#build the third party library
include_directories( ${irisimp_SOURCE_DIR}/../third_party/boost_1_50_0)
set (boost_path 
${irisimp_SOURCE_DIR}/../third_party/boost_1_50_0/libs)

set (BOOST_LIST
${boost_path}/filesystem/src/codecvt_error_category.cpp 
${boost_path}/filesystem/src/operations.cpp 
${boost_path}/filesystem/src/path.cpp 
${boost_path}/filesystem/src/path_traits.cpp 
${boost_path}/filesystem/src/portability.cpp 
${boost_path}/filesystem/src/unique_path.cpp 
${boost_path}/filesystem/src/utf8_codecvt_facet.cpp 
${boost_path}/filesystem/src/windows_file_codecvt.cpp 
${boost_path}/filesystem/src/windows_file_codecvt.hpp 
)
add_library ( boost SHARED ${BOOST_LIST})

I have no problem with running this script, however, the output Visual Studio 10 project does not contain all the source files in the ${boost_path}/filesystem/srcfolder. In fact only windows_file_codecvt.cpp is kept. Therefore, compiling this project will fail. I was wondering what I should do in order to make sure the Visual Studio 10 project can contain all the source files as instructed in the CMakeLists.txt.Thanks!

Answer 1

Try putting semicolons in between the paths like so:

set (BOOST_LIST
  ${boost_path}/filesystem/src/codecvt_error_category.cpp;
  ${boost_path}/filesystem/src/operations.cpp;
  ${boost_path}/filesystem/src/path.cpp;
  ${boost_path}/filesystem/src/path_traits.cpp; 
  ${boost_path}/filesystem/src/portability.cpp;
  ${boost_path}/filesystem/src/unique_path.cpp;
  ${boost_path}/filesystem/src/utf8_codecvt_facet.cpp; 
  ${boost_path}/filesystem/src/windows_file_codecvt.cpp; 
  ${boost_path}/filesystem/src/windows_file_codecvt.hpp;
)

If this doesn’t work, try

add_library(boost SHARED
  ${boost_path}/filesystem/src/codecvt_error_category.cpp
  ${boost_path}/filesystem/src/operations.cpp 
  ${boost_path}/filesystem/src/path.cpp 
  ${boost_path}/filesystem/src/path_traits.cpp
  ...
  ${boost_path}/filesystem/src/windows_file_codecvt.hpp)

This might help debug where the problem lies.