How to compile GLUT + OpenGL project with CMake and Kdevelop in linux?

Question

As the titles says I can\'t seem to build the project with OpenGL and Glut.

I get Undefined reference errors for OpenGL functions.

I tried doing :

Answer 1

In recent versions of CMake (3.10+) there is a new way to use OpenGL using a so-called IMPORTED target:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10)

project(testas)
add_executable(testas main.cpp)
find_package(OpenGL REQUIRED COMPONENTS OpenGL)
find_package(GLUT REQUIRED)

add_dependencies(testas OpenGL::OpenGL)
include_directories(${GLUT_INCLUDE_DIRS} )

target_link_libraries(testas OpenGL::OpenGL ${GLUT_LIBRARY} )

At the moment the only practical difference seems to be on Linux (where GLVND is used if available), but presumably this solution should be more future-proof, as CMake has more information about your intentions and other tools parsing your CMakeFiles will better understand the dependency tree.