[Cmake] Adding suffixes to debug/release builds

NTR niels_tr@hotmail.com
Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:21:59 +0100


Hi again,

how about when one wants to link the four different libraries generated by
CMake to Debug or Release libraries accordingly e.g. "foo" has the four
libraries something like:
foo - Win32 MinSizeRel" (based on "Win32 (x86) Static Library")          -
links to bar.lib
foo - Win32 Release" (based on "Win32 (x86) Static Library")               -
links to bar.lib
foo - Win32 RelWithDebInfo" (based on "Win32 (x86) Static Library")  - links
to barD.lib
foo - Win32 Debug" (based on "Win32 (x86) Static Library")                 -
links to barD.lib

Regards,
Niels


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Hoffman" <bill.hoffman@kitware.com>
To: "NTR" <niels_tr@hotmail.com>; <cmake@public.kitware.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Cmake] Adding suffixes to debug/release builds


> This is Partially done in CMake 1.6.  It only works for the Visual Studio
7 generator.   It is a bit tricky to implement, and that is why it has not
yet been completely done.
> Perhaps the next version.
>
> -Bill
>
>
> At 05:50 PM 1/29/2003 +0100, NTR wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >this is a question that has been asked before, but I couldn't find the
> >answer.
> >
> >---
> >it is good practice with libraries built with MSVC to give different
builds
> >of the same library different filename suffixes. This eliminates the
> >possibility that the linker incorrectly finds and uses a wrong version of
> >the library. For example, the release build of the (well-known) MFC
library
> >normally is named MFC42.DLL, but the debug build spells MFC42D.DLL.
> >Furthermore, the Unicode version of MFC has the name MFC42U.DLL, and the
> >debug build of the unicode version is named MFC42UD.DLL.
> >
> >Is it possible to do this with CMake automatically? If not, would it be a
> >big hack to include this? (So far, I'm not familiar with the CMake source
> >tree.)
> >
> >For some projects, other suffixes could be necessary (just imagine
> >graphlib_mmx.dll, graphlib_3dnow.dll, etc.)...
> >---
> >
> >I guess this could be partially solved by changing the dsp templates.
> >However, it would be nice if a cross-platform solution existed so
libraries
> >would have consistent naming.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Niels
> >
> >PS: The result could be something like for "foo" library
> >foo.lib
> >food.lib
> >foo.dll
> >food.dll
> >etc.
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