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No EXTERNAL_MODULE option can be found in CMake [message #1843072]

Wed, 14 July 2021 10:50

Tuojian Lyu

Messages: 18
Registered: October 2020

Junior Member

Hello,

I followed step 4 of the tutorial to create customized FB types on Windows using MinGW-w64 and CMake. I can create customized FB types and export them to a dedicated folder with generated CMakeLists.txt, but I couldn't find the external modules as options after doing CMake configure.

My CMake configuration with external modules folder:
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My folder tree, external modules and CMake configuration are in the attached images.
OS: win10
CMake: 3.18.0
MinGW-w64: 8.1.0
Forte: 1.14.0

Thanks ahead for any help and comments.

Br,
Tuojian

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Re: No EXTERNAL_MODULE option can be found in CMake [message #1843088 is a reply to message #1843072]

Thu, 15 July 2021 05:52

Alois Zoitl

Messages: 1585
Registered: January 2014

Senior Member

The documentation is maybe not to clear about the external modules directory. This directory must not contain any FBs and CMakeList.txt. The build system scans the external modules directory for any sub directories containg a CMakeList.txt and treats these as modules. So if you create a directory in your external modules directory with your FBs and the CMakeList.txt it should work.

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