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["Laurent Rineau (CGAL/GeometryFactory)" <>]

Le Thursday, December 21, 2017 11:10:53 AM CET X a écrit :

> I recently installed CGAL on my windows system and try to make it work.

> Compiled correctly and demo runs correctly.

>

> However, since I'm using a CMakeList to handle everything, I added the

> lines:

>

> find_package(CGAL)

> include( ${CGAL_USE_FILE} )

>

> in my cmakelist.txt file.

> But it always report the binary file (.lib file under my

> CGAL_DIR/build/lib) cannot be opened.

> If I set the libraries dir in the Visual Studio Project Properties,

> everything works fine.

> Just the cmakelist cannot work correctly.

>

> After some research, it seems that the "CGAL_LIBRARIES" was not set

> correctly by the script as I try to get the variable through

> message ("${CGAL_LIBRARIES")

>

> in my cmakelist.txt file.

>

> and If I set it manually (though dirty, but not sure how to do), the VS

> reports something like "target_link_libraries xx is dropping items".

>

> I'm using windows 10 and CGAL 4.11.

 

On Windows, CGAL uses the auto-link feature, similar to what is used by Boost libraries. That explains why CGAL_LIBRARIES is always empty on Windows.

 

Could you report the full error message (the one about .lib file that cannot be open)?

 

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Laurent Rineau, PhD

R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory http://www.geometryfactory.com/

Release Manager of the CGAL Project http://www.cgal.org/