How do I tell CMake to link in a static library in the source directory?

Question

I have a small project with a Makefile which I\'m trying to convert to CMake, mostly just to get experience with CMake. For purposes of this example, the project contains a

Answer 1

CMake favours passing the full path to link libraries, so assuming libbingitup.a is in ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}, doing the following should succeed:

add_executable(main main.cpp)
target_link_libraries(main ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/libbingitup.a)