Describe cmake use of header-only target

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Ian Bell 2017-05-29 16:58:41 -06:00 committed by Victor Zverovich
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__ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_%28computing%29#Shared_libraries
Header-only usage with CMake
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In order to add ``fmtlib`` into an existing ``CMakeLists.txt`` file, you can add the ``fmt`` library directory into your main project, which will enable the ``fmt`` library::
add_subdirectory(fmt)
If you have a project called ``foo`` that you would like to link against the fmt library in a header-only fashion, you can enable with with::
target_link_libraries(foo PRIVATE fmt::fmt-header-only)
And then to ensure that the ``fmt`` library does not always get built, you can modify the call to ``add_subdirectory`` to read ::
add_subdirectory(fmt EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
This will ensure that the ``fmt`` library is exluded from calls to ``make``, ``make all``, or ``cmake --build .``.
Building the documentation
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