How to port a qmake project to cmake

Question

I would like to "port" this C++ project, which uses qmake (i.e., a Tool.pro file) for building, to cmake.

Essentially, I'm asking how to go about writing the necessary CMakeLists.txt file(s) by looking at the Tool.pro file above.

This is what I've done so far:

include_directories(../lib/cudd-2.5.0/include BFAbstractionLibrary)

add_executable(slugs BFAbstractionLibrary/bddDump.cpp BFAbstractionLibrary/BFCuddVarVector.cpp BFAbstractionLibrary/BFCudd.cpp BFAbstractionLibrary/BFCuddManager.cpp \
    BFAbstractionLibrary/BFCuddVarCube.cpp tools.cpp synthesisAlgorithm.cpp synthesisContextBasics.cpp variableManager.cpp \
    BFAbstractionLibrary/BFCuddMintermEnumerator.cpp)

add_library(lcudd ../lib/cudd-2.5.0/cudd)
add_library(ldddmp ../lib/cudd-2.5.0/dddmp)
add_library(lmtr ../lib/cudd-2.5.0/mtr)
add_library(lepd ../lib/cudd-2.5.0/epd)
add_library(lst ../lib/cudd-2.5.0/st)
add_library(lutil ../lib/cudd-2.5.0/util)

target_link_libraries(slugs lcudd, lutil, lmtr, lst, ldddmp, lepd)

This is definitely missing the headers that are present in the Tool.pro file. I'm also not sure what I have to do with the flags in the first 24 lines of the Tool.pro file.

Could you point me in the right direction please?

• PS1. I have already looked at the CMake Tutorial.
• PS2. I have tried two scripts: q2c, qmake2cmake. The former built an essentially empty CMakeLists.txt file. The latter built a seemingly OK file but then make failed saying it couldn't find some header file (which is located in a subdirectory).
• PS3. I have successfully built the project with qmake.

Answer 1

After sacrificing some of the modularity and complexity of the Tool.pro file above, I was able to build the project using cmake. Here's the CMakeLists.txt file that I wrote:

project( slugs )

cmake_minimum_required( VERSION 2.6 )

add_definitions ( -Wall )
add_definitions ( -D USE_CUDD )

set ( BDDFLAGS "-mtune=native -malign-double -DHAVE_IEEE_754 -DBSD -DCUDD_COMPILER_OPTIONS_SET" ) # hardcoded for x86_64
add_definitions ( ${BDDFLAGS} )

set ( CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Debug )
set ( CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -g -std=gnu++0x -Wall -Wextra ${BDDFLAGS}")

include_directories ( ../lib/cudd-2.5.0/include BFAbstractionLibrary )

set ( slugs_HDRS
    BFAbstractionLibrary/BF.h
    BFAbstractionLibrary/BFCudd.h
    gr1context.hpp
    variableTypes.hpp
    variableManager.hpp
    extensionExtractExplicitStrategy.hpp
    extensionRoboticsSemantics.hpp
    extensionWeakenSafetyAssumptions.hpp
    extensionBiasForAction.hpp
    extensionComputeCNFFormOfTheSpecification.hpp
    extensionCounterstrategy.hpp
    extensionExtractExplicitCounterstrategy.hpp
    extensionIncrementalSynthesis.hpp
    extensionFixedPointRecycling.hpp
    extensionInteractiveStrategy.hpp
    extensionIROSfastslow.hpp
    extensionAnalyzeInitialPositions.hpp
    extensionAnalyzeAssumptions.hpp
    BFAbstractionLibrary/BFCuddMintermEnumerator.h
    extensionComputeInterestingRunOfTheSystem.hpp
    extensionAnalyzeSafetyLivenessInteraction.hpp
    extensionAbstractWinningTraceGenerator.hpp
    extensionInterleave.hpp
    extensionPermissiveExplicitStrategy.hpp
    extensionIncompleteInformationEstimatorSynthesis.hpp
    extensionNondeterministicMotion.hpp
    extensionExtractSymbolicStrategy.hpp
    extensionTwoDimensionalCost.hpp
    )

set ( slugs_SRCS
    main.cpp
    BFAbstractionLibrary/bddDump.cpp
    BFAbstractionLibrary/BFCuddVarVector.cpp
    BFAbstractionLibrary/BFCudd.cpp
    BFAbstractionLibrary/BFCuddManager.cpp
    BFAbstractionLibrary/BFCuddVarCube.cpp
    tools.cpp
    synthesisAlgorithm.cpp
    synthesisContextBasics.cpp
    variableManager.cpp
    BFAbstractionLibrary/BFCuddMintermEnumerator.cpp
    )

set ( slugs_LIBS
    -L../lib/cudd-2.5.0/cudd
    -L../lib/cudd-2.5.0/util
    -L../lib/cudd-2.5.0/mtr
    -L../lib/cudd-2.5.0/st
    -L../lib/cudd-2.5.0/dddmp
    -L../lib/cudd-2.5.0/epd
    -lcudd
    -ldddmp
    -lmtr
    -lepd
    -lst
    -lutil
    )

add_executable ( slugs ${slugs_SRCS} )

target_link_libraries (slugs ${slugs_LIBS})