FindHPX.cmake problems

[maciekab]

When building external applications, the behavior of installed FindHPX.cmake is inconsistent with the HPX documentation:

1. After configuration using cmake script from the documentation, the compilation gets aborted due to inability to find HPX headers. Adding include_directories(${HPX_INCLUDE_DIR}) to cmake script fixes the issue, but the correct setup of include paths is supposed to be done automatically by add_hpx_executable().
2. Linking breaks due to missing library search path(s). Again, adding link_directories(${HPX_LIBRARY_DIR}) fixes it, but it really should be done by add_hpx_executable().
3. It seems that libhpx_component_iostreams.so gets installed by default, yet it is not added to the list of default libraries to link with.

[hkaiser]

Here is an example CMake file (send by Maciej) showing a corrected version for hello_world

project(hello_world)
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8 FATAL_ERROR)

set(HPX_INSTALL_DIR "/home/maciek/packages/hpx")
set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH 
    ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH} 
    ${HPX_INSTALL_DIR}/share/cmake-${CMAKE_MAJOR_VERSION}.${CMAKE_MINOR_VERSION}/Modules)

find_package(HPX)

if(HPX_FOUND)
  set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -DHPX_ENABLED")
  include_directories(${HPX_INCLUDE_DIR})
  link_directories(${HPX_LIBRARY_DIR})
  add_hpx_executable(hello_world ESSENTIAL SOURCES hello_world.cpp COMPONENT_DEPENDENCIES iostreams)
else()
  message(FATAL_ERROR "could not find HPX")
endif()

[brycelelbach]

3.) doesn't make any sense. If you want to use a component, you must link against it.

[brycelelbach]

The need for include_directories and link_directories has been documented as of 869e130. Closing.