Find package Eigen3 for CMake
CMake cannot find my Eigen3 package. I set an environment variable called
EIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR
pointing to the path where FindEigen3.cmake
is.
Then in the CMakelists.txt I wrote:
find_package( Eigen3 REQUIRED )
include_directories( EIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR )
I get next message of error:
CMake Error at C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:91 (MESSAGE):
Could NOT find Eigen3 (missing: EIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR EIGEN3_VERSION_OK)
(Required is at least version "2.91.0")
Call Stack (most recent call first):
C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:252 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindEigen3.cmake:76 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
test/test_quaternion/CMakeLists.txt:25 (find_package)
Any idea on what I am missing or doing wrong?
Since Eigen3 is completely header only, all you ever need is the path to the include directory. And this one, you are already defining manually anyway. So there is no real need for a FindEigen3.cmake
or FIND_PACKAGE
call.
Simply use
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES ( "$ENV{EIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR}" )
or
SET( EIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR "$ENV{EIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR}" )
IF( NOT EIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR )
MESSAGE( FATAL_ERROR "Please point the environment variable EIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR to the include directory of your Eigen3 installation.")
ENDIF()
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES ( "${EIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR}" )
A few notes:
- If you want to access the content of a CMake variable, make sure to use
${...}
-
$ENV{....}
accesses environment variables. - The second example will stop with an error if the environment variable is not set (and, thus, EIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR cmake variable is empty)
- Be careful to use quotation marks around (evaluated) variables if they could contain whitespace. Otherwise, CMake will interpret it as a list.
- If you want to use custom find modules, make sure to either place them in you CMake installation or, as @Fraser pointed out above, make sure to point
CMAKE_MODULE_PATH
to the directory where it is. Not sure, but it could be that CMake checks the current directory as well automatically (where yourCMakeLists.txt
resides. Anyhow, settingEIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR
is totally unrelated to the location ofFindEigen3.cmake
- However, it could be that your
FindEigen3
script evaluates this variable to determine the location of your Eigen3 installation. - Alternatively, self-built CMake-based projects often provide a
<PackageName>Config.cmake
. If you point a variable called<PackageName>_DIR
to the directory containing this file, you can useFIND_PACKAGE( <PackageName> ...)
as normal. See documentation of FIND_PACKAGE for details.
Eigen >= 3.3 has direct CMake integration, so it seems yours isn't set up correctly.
Assume Eigen has been installed to /opt/eigen/3.3
with default settings. Append or prepend the the location /opt/eigen/3.3
to the environment variable CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
e.g in bash:
export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH:/opt/eigen/3.3"
Then CMake should pick it up.
If you are writing your own CMakeLists.txt that uses Eigen I suggest using code like this:
find_package (Eigen3 3.3 REQUIRED)
add_executable (example example.cpp)
target_link_libraries (example Eigen3::Eigen)
You should not use include_directories
since CMake 3 was released -- the targets approach should be preferred whenever available.