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A CMake module allowing project authors to have dependent projects downloaded and set up during the dependent project's configuration phase.

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cmake FetchContent not downloading with DOWNLOAD_NO_EXTRACT in docker

My CMakeLists.txt downloads a JAR file with FetchContent, which works as expected in Ubuntu 18.04 WSL. Running cmake in docker, does however not download the file. I specify DOWNLOAD_NO_EXTRACT TRUE, since it otherwise extracts the JAR file. Without…
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CMake skips fetching directory with FetchContent when output directory is changed

Trying to configure a multi repository project with CMake. Project A is an graphical application which uses Project B for all hardware related details and code. Project B is a device controller / HAL layer. When CMake is configuring it should fetch…
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cmake FetchContent SOURCE_DIR

I am trying to use a small subproject in a cmake master project using the FetchContent method. Specifically, in the CMakeLists.txt of my master project, I have the lines include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare(subproject GIT_REPOSITORY…
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How to import spdlog into a CMake project?

I'm desperately trying to understand how cmake works. I inherited a project that uses cmake, and needs spdlog, but I simply cannot make cmake be able to generate the makefiles, because I cannot produce a working Findspdlog.cmake for find_package to…
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How can I FetchContent with no warnings for developers (with -Wno-dev)?

I am trying to add zmq as a third party library with FetchContent. However, I am uninterested on the warnings meant for devs. As I have taken the tag for a verified release, it should be working without any errors or warnings ideally. I do not want…
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SDL2d.dll not found on windows with CMake using fetchcontent

I am working on a cross platform application with CMake. The project builds on Linux, but not on windows. Any help would be appreciated. The error I get is a popup that says: The code execution cannot proceed because SDL2d.dll was not found.…
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Does FetchContent build with optimisations?

I am moving from including my dependencies using VCPKG to using FetchContent to make building my docker images slightly easer. I now get my dependencies in a file called get_dependencies.cmake like: include(FetchContent) message(STATUS "Getting…
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Run boost bootstrap.sh after FetchContent_MakeAvailable(boost)

I'm writing a CMakeLists.txt, and it needs boost library. So I plan to download boost and run bootstrap_sh and b2. But the problem is that it fails every first time I run cmake. After that, it succeeds every time. I don't know why. Below is the…
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What is the meson equivalent of cmake's `FetchContent`?

How would I fetch a dependency from GitHub in meson? I am trying to convert the following cmake snippet into meson FetchContent_Declare( some_dep GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/some/repo GIT_TAG sometag SOURCE_SUBDIR …
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Issue building opencv using FetchContent cmake command

I really need your help because I really don't understand what I am doing wrong. Using the very simple attached CMakeLists.txt, I got the following error (a lot of times): CMake Error in build/_deps/opencv-src/modules/core/CMakeLists.txt: Target…
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Cmake Fetchcontent not finding dependency

Im trying to use two external git projects in my project, where one depends on the other. However I cannot make it work. FetchContent_Declare( spdlog GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/gabime/spdlog.git GIT_TAG…
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FetchContent is not setting include path

I'm trying to link a fortran project against jsonfortran. Below is a mwe which fails because the module file cannot be found. This happens when the include path is not properly set. main.F90 program thing_program use json_module, only : json_ck …
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Installation issue with a `FetchContent`ed library

I am trying to install and export the target defined by the following CMakeLists.txt in a Windows environment. It uses FetchContent to download a library from github. I can build the library with no problem and generate nfd.lib. My goal is to use…
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Using FetchContent with interdependent libraries yields "prefixed in the build directory" error

Consider the following: I have a project which depends on libwebsockets which is itself dependends on mbedtls. I pull everything in from github using FetchContent, which establishes the dependencies in the build folder (_deps). As I want to build…
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FetchContent access to private Git repository

Has anybody faced with such a issue while trying to get private repository via FetchContent? CMakeLists.txt: include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare( {repository} GIT_REPOSITORY https://{username}@github.com/{company}/{repository} …
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