Use cmake FindBLAS to link OpenBLAS - cmake

Question

I am using cmake 3.16, and I know that cmake supports finding OpenBLAS by using FindBLAS (here).
I am trying to link OpenBLAS to my c++ project. Here is my CMakeLists.txt.
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15)
project(my_project)
# source file
file(GLOB SOURCES "src/*.cpp")
# executable file
add_executable(main.exe ${SOURCES})
# link openblas
set(BLA_VENDER OpenBLAS)
find_package(BLAS REQUIRED)
if(BLAS_FOUND)
message("OpenBLAS found.")
include_directories(${BLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS})
target_link_libraries(main.exe ${BLAS_LIBRARIES})
endif(BLAS_FOUND)
If I run cmake, it runs just find, and outputs OpenBLAS found.. However, if I start to compile the codes (make VERBOSE=1), the library is not linked, so that the codes fail to compile. Here is the error info:
fatal error: cblas.h: No such file or directory
#include <cblas.h>
^~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
I installed OpenBLAS successfully. The header files are in /opt/OpenBLAS/include, and the shared libraries are in /opt/OpenBLAS/lib. My OS is ubuntu 18.04.
Any help? Thank you!

Answer 1

Thanks Tsyvarev. I found the problem.
I tried to use message() to print out the variables.
message(${BLAS_LIBRARIES})
Which gives:
/opt/OpenBLAS/lib/libopenblas.so
So the shared library is found.
However, for BLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS, it gives:
message(${BLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS})
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:27 (message):
message called with incorrect number of arguments
It turns out that BLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS is not in the FindBLAS variables. So I add the include header files manually:
set(BLA_VENDER OpenBLAS)
find_package(BLAS REQUIRED)
if(BLAS_FOUND)
message("OpenBLAS found.")
include_directories(/opt/OpenBLAS/include/)
target_link_libraries(main.exe ${BLAS_LIBRARIES})
endif(BLAS_FOUND)
This time it compiles without error. Instead of using include_directories(), you could also try find_path() (check this).