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[Máté Kovács <>]

That did the trick, thank you! :)

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Philipp Moeller <> wrote:

Máté Kovács <> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm building a library that uses CGAL internally.
> Unfortunately, I could only find instructions on how to build stand-alone
> applications, not libraries.
> For stand-alone applications, I used cgal_create_cmake_script to generate
> the CMake environment.
> Could you please tell me (or point me to a description of) how that should
> be done when building a library?

I recommend having a look at what the macro
create_single_source_cgal_program does. In essence it just uses
add_executable and target_link_libraries. You need to do the same using
add_library and target_link_libraries.

  find_package(CGAL QUIET COMPONENTS Core ) # other components, if you need them
  if(NOT CGAL_FOUND)
    message(ERROR "...")
  endif()

  add_library(my_lib_name source1.cpp source2.cpp)

  if(CGAL_AUTO_LINK_ENABLED)
    target_link_libraries(my_lib_name ${CGAL_LIBRARIES} ${CGAL_3RD_PARTY_LIBRARIES})
  else()
    target_link_libraries(my_lib_name ${CGAL_3RD_PARTY_LIBRARIES})
  endif()

Have a look at http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.12/cmake.html for
more information and especially how to build static libraries.