find_package prevent usage of this tools ? about cmake_min_version HOT 4 OPEN

It's not designed not to work, so this is a bug. Do you have any example project that exhibits this bug? Which OS are you using?

from cmake_min_version.

I've been try to use it an any simple project like this one:

project(check-engine)

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1)

find_package(f3d REQUIRED)

add_executable(check-engine main.cxx)
target_link_libraries(check-engine f3d::libf3d)

# make sure the libf3d API is compatible with C++11
set_target_properties(check-engine PROPERTIES CXX_STANDARD 11)

it fails on find_package

from cmake_min_version.

It might not be the same problem as @mwestphal, but I encountered something similar with FindPkgConfig.cmake when trying to use cmake_min_version. In my case some packages were not installed in default system locations and explicitly setting the CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH environment variable fixed the problem for me:

CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=~/projects/foobar/prefix venv/bin/python cmake_min_version.py ~/projects/foobar/repo

Even though this worked for my case, it would be nice to be able to control what gets passed to the underlying CMakes explicitly with a script option or similar.

from cmake_min_version.

Even though this worked for my case, it would be nice to be able to control what gets passed to the underlying CMakes explicitly with a script option or similar.

Do you mean command-line options or environment variables?

from cmake_min_version.