CMake build doesn't generate a config file

[matteosal]

Building ONNXRuntime as a CMake submodule in a larger project is not possible because CMakeLists.txt in ONNXRuntime doesn't create a config file. Command find_package(onnxruntime REQUIRED) fails with:

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:209 (find_package):
  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "onnxruntime" with
  any of the following names:

    onnxruntimeConfig.cmake
    onnxruntime-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "onnxruntime" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
  "onnxruntime_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If
  "onnxruntime" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it
  has been installed.

[snnn]

Sorry we don't have a plan for it yet. If you use onnxruntime as a submodule you can directly link to the targets. Like:

target_link_libraries(your_target PRIVATE
  onnxruntime_session
  ${onnxruntime_libs}
  ${PROVIDERS_ACL}
  ${PROVIDERS_ARMNN}
  ${PROVIDERS_COREML}
  ${PROVIDERS_DML}
  ${PROVIDERS_NNAPI}
  ${PROVIDERS_NUPHAR}
  ${PROVIDERS_TVM}
  ${PROVIDERS_RKNPU}
  ${PROVIDERS_ROCM}
  ${PROVIDERS_VITISAI}
  ${PROVIDERS_INTERNAL_TESTING}
  ${onnxruntime_winml}
  onnxruntime_optimizer
  onnxruntime_providers
  ${onnxruntime_tvm_libs}
  onnxruntime_framework
  onnxruntime_graph
  onnxruntime_util
  ${ONNXRUNTIME_MLAS_LIBS}
  onnxruntime_common
  onnxruntime_flatbuffers
  ${onnxruntime_EXTERNAL_LIBRARIES}
)

find_package is to find packages that are already installed to your system.

[matteosal]

Ok, that's more direct indeed, thank you