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PATH vs. /include dir

Added by Anonymous almost 11 years ago. Updated almost 11 years ago.

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08/30/2013
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What is the difference between setting a dir in PATH environment variable and setting that dir within INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES of CMakeLists.txt ?

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Updated by Wim Dumon almost 11 years ago

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PATH is where your operating system will search for executables (and DLLs on windows).

INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES in CMakeLists.txt is where your compiler (preprocessor) will search for include files when it encounters #include directives in the source code.

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