[cmake-developers] [CMake 0015528]: Enhance find_library to specify which library kind we are looking for
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Wed Apr 22 09:06:12 EDT 2015
The following issue has been SUBMITTED.
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http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15528
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Reported By: marc.chevrier
Assigned To:
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Project: CMake
Issue ID: 15528
Category: CMake
Reproducibility: N/A
Severity: feature
Priority: normal
Status: new
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Date Submitted: 2015-04-22 09:06 EDT
Last Modified: 2015-04-22 09:06 EDT
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Summary: Enhance find_library to specify which library kind
we are looking for
Description:
Currently, it is not possible, in an easy way, to specify which kind of library
we are looking for when calling find_library.
So if we are searching a static library, and a shared library is also available,
this is the shared one which will be found.
Today, to work-around this problem, the following pattern must be used:
set (default_find_library_suffixes ${CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES})
set (CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES ${CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_SUFFIX})
find_library (...)
set (CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES ${default_find_library_suffixes})
which is a bit painful.
I suggest to add a new parameter to specify which kind of library we are looking
for.
For example, parameter TYPE which can have values LINK, STATIC or RUNTIME
* LINK: extension .so (Unix) or .lib (Windows) will be used
* STATIC: extension .a (Unix) or .lib (Windows) will be used
* RUNTIME: extension .so (Unix) or .dll (Windows) will be used. This latest case
can be useful to locate shared runtime libraries rather than link ones
Whithout this parameter, find_library has same behavior as today.
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Issue History
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2015-04-22 09:06 marc.chevrier New Issue
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