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Building a Program Using CGAL

Since Version 5.0, CGAL is header-only, hence it does not create a library. Some parts of it, however, link to several external libraries, such as GMP, MPFR, etc.

If you are trying to build examples or tests that do not already have a CMakeLists.txt, you can trigger its creation by calling the script cgal_create_cmake_script found in /path/to/cgal.git/Scripts/scripts/ at the root of the example/test directory. Here is a recipe for the examples of the 2D Triangulation package:

 git clone https://github.com/CGAL/cgal.git /path/to/cgal.git
 cd /path/to/cgal.git/Triangulation_2/examples/Triangulation_2
 /path/to/cgal.git/Scripts/scripts/cgal_create_cmake_script
 mkdir -p build/debug
 cd build/debug
 cmake -DCGAL_DIR:PATH=/path/to/cgal.git ../..
 make

If, instead of the git repository you downloaded a source release, the files will be organized in a slightly different way, see the Layout of the CGAL Git Repository.

For more information see the CGAL manual.