Bug #10949
openBuilding examples on linux
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Description
Examples are not build under Linux unless -DINSTALL_EXAMPLES=ON
is also set when configuring.
I would expect them to be build with that: cmake -S . -B build -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=ON
or even cmake -S . -B build
(since BUILD_EXAMPLES
is on by default).
They are only build when using cmake -S . -B build -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=ON -DINSTALL_EXAMPLES=ON
Reading CMakeLists.txt:488 ff I can see the issue and I assume there have been reasons to treat the windows build differently - but that's inconvenient and reasons are not clear/documented.
Updated by Roel Standaert over 2 years ago
On non-Windows the examples are indeed not part of the all
target.
You can actually build all examples by running make
in the examples
subdirectory of the build folder, or if you're using Ninja you can use the examples/all
target.
I'm not sure why we're building all of the examples by default on Windows, maybe that's because of issues with CMake at the time. I would not build them by default on all platforms.