The code for this recipe is available at https://github.com/dev-cafe/cmake-cookbook/tree/v1.0/chapter-03/recipe-03 and has a C++ example. The recipe is valid with CMake version 3.5 (and higher) and has been tested on GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.
In the previous recipe, we showed how to detect the Python interpreter and how to compile a simple C program, embedding the Python interpreter. Both are fundamental tasks to get you off the ground when combining Python and a compiled language. Often, your code will depend on specific Python modules, be they Python tools, compiled programs embedding Python, or libraries extending it. For example, NumPy has become very popular in the scientific community for problems involving matrix algebra. In projects that depend on Python modules or packages, it is important to make sure that the dependency on...
