cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8) project(TestBFD) # Sanity checks if("${BFD_LIBRARY_NAME}" STREQUAL "") message(FATAL_ERROR "error: ${v} variable is an empty string !") endif() unset(BFD_LIBRARY CACHE) find_library(BFD_LIBRARY ${BFD_LIBRARY_NAME}) add_executable(TestBFD TestBFD.cpp) target_link_libraries(TestBFD ${BFD_LIBRARY})