CMake sdl-config

Question

Is there a way to use sdl-config in CMake?

Answer 1

Yes. Just use find_program() to find it and execute_process() to run it and capture its output. If you actually want to test for SDL and use it in your project, CMake comes with FindSDL.cmake, so you could just put find_package(SDL) in your CMakeLists.txt and then just access SDL_CFLAGS and so on directly.