Build mongo cxx driver

Hi,

first off all, sorry, if I miss something, or my problem is due to the lack of my CMake knowledge.
As I googled the problem, I found a similar issue, however my problem remains unsolved. The related link:

Issue description:
I need to compile mongo-c-driver (1.17.2) and mongo-cxx-driver (3.6.2) for my project and link statically. It is done in a superbuild CMake configuration in our product. The related cmake file:

ExternalProject_Add( 
	mongo_c_driver 
	GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver.git 
	GIT_TAG 1.17.2 
	SOURCE_DIR "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/mongo-c-driver" 
	BINARY_DIR "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/mongo-c-driver/build" 
	BUILD_ALWAYS 1 
	UPDATE_COMMAND "" 
	CMAKE_CACHE_ARGS 
		-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release 
		-DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP:BOOL=OFF
		-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:STRING=${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/bin 
		)

ExternalProject_Add( 
	mongo_cxx_driver 
	GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-cxx-driver.git 
	GIT_TAG c315129c7b70c304d894ea60b7df71d1f3a71acf 
	SOURCE_DIR "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/mongo-cxx-driver" 
	BINARY_DIR "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/mongo-cxx-driver/build" 
	BUILD_ALWAYS 1 
	UPDATE_COMMAND "" 
	CMAKE_CACHE_ARGS 
		-DBUILD_SHARED_AND_STATIC_LIBS:BOOL=ON 
		-DMONGOCXX_ENABLE_SSL:BOOL=ON 
		-DBSONCXX_POLY_USE_MNMLSTC:BOOL=ON 
		-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release 
		-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:STRING=${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/bin 
	DEPENDS mongo_c_driver 
	)

At this point, everything seems to be perfect, the target installation folder structure:

The problem is when I want to use the result, libbsoxx-static wants to load libbison-static 1.13.0, however I have build the 1.17.2 of it. The related section of libbsoncxx-static-config.cmake

set(LIBBSONCXX_STATIC_VERSION_MAJOR 3)
set(LIBBSONCXX_STATIC_VERSION_MINOR 6)
set(LIBBSONCXX_STATIC_VERSION_PATCH 1)
set(LIBBSONCXX_STATIC_PACKAGE_VERSION 3.6.1-pre)

# We need to pull in the libbson-static-* library to read the BSON_STATIC_LIBRARIES variable. We
# can ignore the other variables exported by that package (e.g. BSON_STATIC_INCLUDE_DIRS,
# BSON_STATIC_DEFINITIONS), since bsoncxx hides the existence of libbson from the user through
# abstraction. bsoncxx users generally should not need to include libbson headers directly.
find_package(libbson-static-1.0 1.13.0 REQUIRED)

Can anybody help me, what did I wrong please?

@norbert_NNN could you explain in a bit more detail what went wrong from your perspective? Was there an error message? The comment above the find_package() command explains why it is there. It is needed and should not hinder your ability to use Additionally, the way that find_package() works, since you have built C driver 1.17.2, it will satisfy the dependency requirement of version 1.13.0.

As a side note, you are likely to find integration easier by using the mongo::bsoncxx_static target available from the bsoncxx-config.cmake package script. You can see an example of this in examples/projects/bsoncxx/cmake/static/CMakeLists.txt.

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Hi,
it seems, the problem is solved by adding the line to my CMakeList.txt:

list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/bin")

after that, I could use mongocxx successfully.
Thank you.

I will check the example for the target

hello norbert @norbert_NNN
can you tell me please what Integrated development environment (c++) are using
and my email is:khalil@toubia.me