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General discussions / having trouble adding a SFML to my project using CMake

« on: March 06, 2024, 11:12:51 am »

My IDE is CLion, using CMake and SFML.
I've been trying to figure this but for whatever reason, my brain is acting like the smoothest sphere you've ever seen.
my project structure is:

MyProject
    sfml
        bin
        include
            SFML
                Audio
                    // various .hpp files
                Graphics
                    // various .hpp files
                Network
                    // various .hpp files
                System
                    // various .hpp files
                Window
                // various .hpp files
        lib
    CMakeLists.txt
    main.cpp

and i have this in my CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.26)
project(byte)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
add_executable(MyProject main.cpp)
include_directories(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/sfml/include)

As far as i understand, the include_directories is basically bringing in the header files, but im having trouble with target_link_libraries. i've tried using

target_link_libraries(MyProject ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/sfml/lib)

but CMake drops that item, saying it may only link to libraries. What is it that i am missing in this?