The correct CMakeLists.txt file to call a MAXON libarary in a Python script using pybind11

Question

I\'m very new to the whole CMake. Following this and this posts, now I want to call a MAXON function inside Python, using pybind11. What I have done so far:

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Answer 1

pybind11_add_module already creates a target for you. So you don't need add_executable anymore. Just remove that line and when you will build you will get a library with the name HelloEposCmd

add_executable is needed if you are building an executable (.exe), which I believe is not what you want.

Documenation of pybind11 says.

This function behaves very much like CMake’s builtin add_library (in fact, it’s a wrapper function around that command).