Need Official CMAKE Script for Prebuilt Libraries

[DibyaXPP]

I tried to make my own CMAKE Script for Visual Studio 2022, but i failed to make it build

cmake cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)
project(aui_app)

# Set path to the pre-downloaded AUI library
set(AUI_DIR "C:/Users/Dibya/Downloads/aui_windows-msvc-x86_64-shared-release(2).tar/aui_windows-msvc-x86_64-shared-release(2)")

# Add AUI to CMake's module path
list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${AUI_DIR}")
list(APPEND CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH "${AUI_DIR}")

# Include AUI boot file if it exists locally
include("${AUI_DIR}/aui.boot.cmake" OPTIONAL)

# Import AUI manually if not using `aui.boot.cmake`
find_package(aui REQUIRED COMPONENTS core views)

# Create the executable and link AUI components
add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME} src/main.cpp) 

# Link the AUI components to your project
target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE aui::core aui::views)

With official AUI BOOT Script given in readme.md, i managed to make a simple app so i consider it a success, but a official working method for pre-built binary is needed.

• aui.boot: set up precompiled binaries infrastructure on GitHub #395
• aui.boot: possibility to pack all dependencies into a single package #403
• GitHub Actions: make an action to update AUI_VERSION in README.md to latest release #396

[Alex2772]

Just to make things clear: why don't you consider using *official* way of importing aui?

set(AUI_VERSION master)
# Use AUI.Boot
file(
        DOWNLOAD
        https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aui-framework/aui/${AUI_VERSION}/aui.boot.cmake
        ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/aui.boot.cmake)
include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/aui.boot.cmake)

# import AUI
auib_import(aui https://github.com/aui-framework/aui
        COMPONENTS core views
        VERSION ${AUI_VERSION})

[Alex2772]

#133

[DibyaXPP]

I cann't get Release build to work, moreover it take time to build AUI on my old i7 3770K [Around 20 Minutes]
Thanks for reply

[Alex2772]

As a workaround, you may specify -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release while configuring AND specify “Release” build type in Visual Studio in the dropdown:

or through command line when building:
cmake —build . —config Release

[DibyaXPP]

Where to specify -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release in Visual Studio 2022?

[Alex2772]

It's not about Visual Studio, it’s about cmake. I assume you are running cmake from console before opening the project.

[DibyaXPP]

Not really i made a Cmake app from Visual studio and copied official CMAKE AUI Boot Script to CMAKEList.txt, made a src directory , ran build all and it worked. [Please see the CMAKELIST which i highlighted], then i ran build all it worked

I never used CMAKE outside Visual studio environment, shall i run CMAKE from Visual Studio Native CMD next time?

[Alex2772]

Oh i see, you are using CMake directly from Visual Studio.

I've just set up the same environment. It looks like it does not use Visual Studio generator. It uses ninja.

Could you clarify which generator your Visual Studio uses?

[DibyaXPP]

I also found -G"ninja" in my log,
[I am attaching the log]
cmakelog.txt