A project is basically a simplified extension. The purpose of the projects directory is to allow placement of several projects using the same OpenEngine base and libraries.

To get started the dist.py can be used to create a new project and install the project dependencies.

./dist.py mkproj MyProject
./dist.py install projects/MyProject/ExampleProject.dist

Now you may edit the projects/MyProject/CMakeLists.txt file to make a binary target for your project. You will at least need to change the PROJECT_NAME and PROJECT_SOURCES variables and update the dependencies supplied to the TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES command.

The project binary will be placed in the build directory after compilation.

Related information can be found on the CreatingExtensions page.