Using CMAKE how can I use CHECK_LIBRARY_EXISTS to check a C++ library?

Question

I'm trying to use the cmake's function:

CHECK_LIBRARY_EXISTS(library function location variable)

How can I check if the C++ library are available ?

CHECK_LIBRARY_EXISTS(yaml-cpp "YAML::Token" ${YAML-CPP_PATHS} HAVE_YAML-CPP)
IF(HAVE_YAML-CPP)
    MESSAGE(STATUS "YAML-CPP libraries founded: OK")
ENDIF(HAVE_YAML-CPP)

IF(NOT HAVE_YAML-CPP)
    MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR "ERROR: unable to link YAML::Token")
ENDIF(NOT HAVE_YAML-CPP)

That code snip don't work.

Michael Wild · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-18 13:28:40Z

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The CheckLibraryExists module only works for C symbols, not C++. Personally I would just use find_library and find_path to find the library and include path. If the library doesn't contain the right symbols, the user is going to notice soon enough during the linking...

Since yaml-cpp installs a pkg-config file, you can also use the FindPkgConfig module. However, since yaml-cpp itself is built using CMake, you should encourage them to actually install a yaml-cpp-config.cmake file. See e.g. this tutorial for more information.

answered Apr 18, 2012 at 13:28

Michael Wild

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