[chengdi]

The purpose is take advantage of modern IDEs (VSC, CLion, QT Creator, even Visual Studio with Linux Development Workload) which integrate with cmake better.

wmake is used to do two things:

1. compile OpenFOAM libs: from `src` to `lib*.so`
2. compile applications using OpenFOAM libs: from `xxFoam.C` to `xxFoam`

I only intended to do the second task.

for example: basic/laplacianFoam

add CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.8)

# cxx11
set( CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11 )
set(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS} -Xlinker --no-as-needed -Xlinker --add-needed")
link_directories($ENV{FOAM_LIBBIN})
add_definitions(-Dlinux64 -DWM_ARCH_OPTION=64 -DWM_DP -DWM_LABEL_SIZE=32 -DNoRepository -m64 -fPIC )

# Make/files
# Add source to this project's executable.
add_executable (laplacianFoam "laplacianFoam.C")

# Make/options
include_directories( $ENV{FOAM_SRC}/finiteVolume/lnInclude )
include_directories( $ENV{FOAM_SRC}/meshTools/lnInclude )
include_directories( $ENV{FOAM_SRC}/OpenFOAM/lnInclude )
include_directories( $ENV{FOAM_SRC}/OSspecific/POSIX/lnInclude )

set(EXTRA_LIBS dl m)
set(LIBS finiteVolume fvOptions meshTools OpenFOAM ${EXTRA_LIBS})

target_link_libraries(laplacianFoam ${LIBS})

I am using vs 2017 to do debug remotely, and intellisense works under proper header sharing settings.

[LeeRuns]

any chance you would share the cmake files?

[LeeRuns]

Now I see your cmake files. Nm.