CMake Support

[1ynxy]

I'm going to out myself as a dumb little guy here, but I'm struggling to import this as a system library using CMake on an Arch system- the linking for requirements appears to be all mussed up. Is this possible? Can you provide any instructions or tips? I'm afraid I've very little experience with Meson.

[ehopperdietzel]

Have you installed it yet? If not, you can easily get it via AUR. Additionally, if you're interested in using the latest version, say the 2.0.0 branch, you'll need to build and install it manually using Meson.

I'm not very familiar with CMake, but I believe this is how you can link it to your project:

project(your_project)

...

find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
pkg_check_modules(LOUVRE REQUIRED Louvre)
include_directories(${LOUVRE_INCLUDE_DIRS})
link_directories(${LOUVRE_LIBRARY_DIRS})
add_definitions(${LOUVRE_CFLAGS_OTHER})
target_link_libraries(your_project ${LOUVRE_LIBRARIES})

The lib name is libLouvre.so and the headers directory must be included e.g /usr/local/include/Louvre.

However, I'd recommend using Meson instead. Here's an example of a Louvre project using Meson: LouvreTutorial. The meson.build file is quite straightforward.

[1ynxy]

You're brilliant- that does indeed build just fine. And yup, I had at least managed to install Louvre using AUR ;)

I'll try Meson at some point- I'm just building in some other components that I'm used to building using CMake haha. Thanks!