How do I add curses to cmake?

Question

I'm having some problems with adding an external library to my project in CLion and everything I found regarding this topic didn't really get me any further.

I have these files added:

include/curses.h
include/panel.h
lib/pdcurses.lib
cmake-build-debug/pdcurses.dll

I've also added the files to my MinGW folder in case anybody is looking there... Yes, I'm lost.

How do my CMakeLists.txt does to have to look for this? Tried so much but since I really have no clue about cmake I can't get it to work.

currently it is looking like this

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.6)
project(113_curses)

set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -lpdcurses")
set(SOURCE_FILES main.cpp)

add_executable(113_curses ${SOURCE_FILES})

include_directories(${MY_SOURCE_DIR}/include)
link_directories(${MY_SOURCE_DIR}/lib)
target_link_libraries(113_curses pdcurses.lib)

The errors

[ 50%] Linking CXX executable 113_curses.exe
C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: skipping incompatible C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../lib/pdcurses.lib when searching for -lpdcurses
C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: skipping incompatible C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../pdcurses.lib when searching for -lpdcurses
C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: skipping incompatible C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../lib/pdcurses.lib when searching for -lpdcurses
C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: skipping incompatible C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../lib\pdcurses.lib when searching for -lpdcurses
C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: skipping incompatible C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../pdcurses.lib when searching for -lpdcurses
C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: skipping incompatible C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../..\pdcurses.lib when searching for -lpdcurses
C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lpdcurses
C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: skipping incompatible C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../lib/pdcurses.lib when searching for -lpdcurses
C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: skipping incompatible C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../pdcurses.lib when searching for -lpdcurses
C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: skipping incompatible C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../lib/pdcurses.lib when searching for -lpdcurses
C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: skipping incompatible C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../lib\pdcurses.lib when searching for -lpdcurses
C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: skipping incompatible C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../pdcurses.lib when searching for -lpdcurses
C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: skipping incompatible C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../..\pdcurses.lib when searching for -lpdcurses
C:/Tools/mingw-w64/x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lpdcurses
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
CMakeFiles\113_curses.dir\build.make:96: recipe for target '113_curses.exe' failed
CMakeFiles\Makefile2:66: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/113_curses.dir/all' failed
mingw32-make.exe[2]: *** [113_curses.exe] Error 1
Makefile:82: recipe for target 'all' failed
mingw32-make.exe[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/113_curses.dir/all] Error 2
mingw32-make.exe: *** [all] Error 2

Answer 1

You need to add:

include_directories(/path/to/curses/include)