Simple demo of CRoaring as a CMake dependency.

This repository is meant to serve as an example of how to use CRoaring as a CMake dependency by having CRoaring as a git submodule.

Usage:

mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && cmake --build . && ./src/test

The simple CMake project builds a simple test (./src/test) .

Please refer to the main CRoaring project for further documentation.

How to add CRoaring as a CMake dependency

Fundamentally, it is as simple as adding the following line after copying the project as a subdirectory in your own project:

add_subdirectory(CRoaring EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)

Why and how to add a submodule?

If your own project is under git, you probably do not want to copy CRoaring in your own git repository. Instead, you want to add it as a submodule.

Once you have a git repository, adding CRoaring as a submodule is relatively easy, type:

git submodule add https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/CRoaring.git

Using submodules, you can control exactly which version your colleagues are using, down to the commit. Furthermore, submodules are portable: they work wherever git works.

Then you can just follow our example.

FetchContent

There is even a simpler example using FetchContent. A single CMakeLists.txt file suffices.