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How to include qwt in a CMake project?

This question provides a (supposedly) working FindQwt.cmake. Is there an official version of the file somewhere? I would hate to just copy-paste the code.

Secondly, here is the content of my debian package. How come it doesn't contain any headers?

$ dpkg -L libqwt-qt5-dev
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qwt.prf
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qwtconfig.pri
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qwtfunctions.pri
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/features/qwtmathml.prf
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/designer
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/designer/libqwt_designer_plugin.so
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libqwt-qt5-dev
/usr/share/doc/libqwt-qt5-dev/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libqwt-qt5-dev/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/libqwt-qt5-dev/copyright
/usr/lib/libqwt-qt5.so
Solution

  • Unfortunately there isn't an official FindQwt.cmake, nor does Qwt provide a QwtConfig.cmake. And cmake doesn't support qmake's configuration feature or can read it's mkspecs (.prf) files.

    The script from https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/community/-/wikis/contrib/modules/FindQwt looks good though and worked for me:

    # Qt Widgets for Technical Applications
# available at http://www.http://qwt.sourceforge.net/
#
# The module defines the following variables:
#  Qwt_FOUND - the system has Qwt
#  QWT_INCLUDE_DIR - where to find qwt_plot.h
#  QWT_INCLUDE_DIRS - qwt includes
#  QWT_LIBRARY - where to find the Qwt library
#  QWT_LIBRARIES - aditional libraries
#  QWT_VERSION_STRING - version (ex. 5.2.1)
#
# It also defines this imported target:
#  Qwt::Qwt

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if (Qt5Gui_FOUND)
  get_target_property(QT_INCLUDE_DIR Qt5::Gui INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES)
endif ()

find_path ( QWT_INCLUDE_DIR
  NAMES qwt_plot.h
  HINTS ${QT_INCLUDE_DIR}
  PATH_SUFFIXES qwt qwt-qt5 qwt6
)

set ( QWT_INCLUDE_DIRS ${QWT_INCLUDE_DIR} )

# version
set ( _VERSION_FILE ${QWT_INCLUDE_DIR}/qwt_global.h )
if ( EXISTS ${_VERSION_FILE} )
  file ( STRINGS ${_VERSION_FILE} _VERSION_LINE REGEX "define[ ]+QWT_VERSION_STR" )
  if ( _VERSION_LINE )
    string ( REGEX REPLACE ".*define[ ]+QWT_VERSION_STR[ ]+\"([^\"]*)\".*" "\\1" QWT_VERSION_STRING "${_VERSION_LINE}" )
  endif ()
endif ()
unset ( _VERSION_FILE )

find_library ( QWT_LIBRARY
  NAMES qwt qwt-qt5
  HINTS ${QT_LIBRARY_DIR}
)

set ( QWT_LIBRARIES ${QWT_LIBRARY} )

include ( FindPackageHandleStandardArgs )
find_package_handle_standard_args( Qwt REQUIRED_VARS QWT_LIBRARY QWT_INCLUDE_DIR VERSION_VAR QWT_VERSION_STRING )

if (Qwt_FOUND AND NOT TARGET Qwt::Qwt)
  add_library(Qwt::Qwt UNKNOWN IMPORTED)
  set_target_properties(Qwt::Qwt PROPERTIES
                        INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES "${QWT_INCLUDE_DIRS}"
                        IMPORTED_LOCATION "${QWT_LIBRARIES}")
endif ()

mark_as_advanced (
  QWT_LIBRARY
  QWT_INCLUDE_DIR
)

    Edit: WARNING: This can return the wrong Qwt library! If you have both the Qt 4 and Qt 5 version installed it will return the Qt 4 version, even if you use Qt 5. This will result in your application being linked to both Qt 4 and Qt 5, which crashes immediately.