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

On Sunday, January 24, 2021 12:59:39 AM CET Jeb Gaither wrote:
> Hi
> I am not sure what is wrong. I am trying to update to CGAL 5.2
> I have successfully downloaded 5.2, Boost 1_17_0, CMake 3.19.3.
> I have tried to Configure Demos, Examples, etc with similar results to the
> attached error log.

Dear Jeb, the CMake error is the following:

> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:21 (find_package):
> By not providing "FindCGAL.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
> asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "CGAL", but
> CMake did not find one.
> 
> Could not find a package configuration file provided by "CGAL" with any of
> the following names:
> 
> CGALConfig.cmake
> cgal-config.cmake
> 
> Add the installation prefix of "CGAL" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
> "CGAL_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If "CGAL"
> provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been
> installed.

That says CMake was not able to find the install path of CGAL-5.2 by itself.

Let's suppose you have copied CGAL-5.2 into

  C:/Users/Jeb Gaither/Documents/Art/CGAL-5.2/

then, in the CMake GUI, you must set the CMake `CGAL_DIR` cache variable to 
the same path:

  C:/Users/Jeb Gaither/Documents/Art/CGAL-5.2

You can also set `CGAL_DIR` as an environment variable.

-- 
Laurent Rineau, PhD
R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory           http://www.geometryfactory.com/
Release Manager of the CGAL Project       http://www.cgal.org/