JKQtPlotter/examples/cmake_link_example/README.md

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# Example (JKQTPlotter): CMake Example {#JKQTCMakeLinkExample}
This project (see [`cmake_link_example`](https://github.com/jkriege2/JKQtPlotter/tree/master/examples/cmake_link_example) demonstrates how to link against JKQTPlotter using CMake. See http://jkriege2.github.io/JKQtPlotter/page_buildinstructions.html for details on how to build JKQTPlotter with CMake
This example uses very simple code, which simply displays a plotter and shows some data. The important part of this example is the ´CMakeLists.txt`-file:
```
# set minimum required CMake-Version
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)
# set Project name
set(EXAMPLE_NAME simpletest)
set(EXENAME jkqtptest_${EXAMPLE_NAME})
project(${EXAMPLE_NAME} LANGUAGES CXX)
# some basic configurations
set(CMAKE_AUTOMOC ON)
set(CMAKE_AUTORCC ON)
set(CMAKE_AUTOUIC ON)
set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_CURRENT_DIR ON)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
set(CMAKE_WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS ON)
# Configure project for usage of Qt5
find_package(Qt5 5.12 REQUIRED Core Gui Widgets PrintSupport Svg Xml OpenGl)
# include JKQTPlotter
find_package(JKQTCommonLib)
find_package(JKQTMathTextLib)
find_package(JKQTPlotterLib)
# For Visual Studio, we need to set some additional compiler options
if(MSVC)
add_compile_options(/EHsc)
# To enable M_PI, M_E,...
add_definitions(/D_USE_MATH_DEFINES)
# To Prevent Errors with min() and max()
add_definitions(/DNOMINMAX)
# To fix error: C2338: va_start argument must not
# have reference type and must not be parenthesized
add_definitions(/D_CRT_NO_VA_START_VALIDATION)
endif()
# add the example executable
add_executable(${EXENAME} WIN32 simpletest.cpp)
# ... and link against JKQTPlotterLib
# (you could use JKQTPlotterSharedLib if you don't want to link againast the
# static version, but against the shared/DLL version).
target_link_libraries(${EXENAME} JKQTPlotterLib)
```
To build this example, you first need to make a subdirectory `build` and then call CMake form that subdirectory:
```.sh
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake .. -G "<GENERATOR>" "-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=<path_to_your_qt_sources> -DCMAKE_MODULE_PATH=<path_to_lib/cmake_dir_of_JKQTPLOTTER>"
```
The you can use the generated makefiles (e.g. load them in an editor, or build them jsing `make`). In the last line above, you need to specify two directories:
- `<path_to_your_qt_sources>` points to you Qt installation
- `<path_to_lib/cmake_dir_of_JKQTPLOTTER>` points to the directory containing the `XYZ.cmake`-files from the JKQTPlotter build. Typically this is `<JKQTPLOTTER_INSTALL_DIR>/lib/cmake`, where `<JKQTPLOTTER_INSTALL_DIR>` is the directory into which you installed JKQTPlotter.