[CMake] Replacing -L with -l

[Jorgen Bodde]

Thanks Bill!

By the way is it true that Cmake is adopted by the KDE development team? 
That is good news!

- Jorgen

William A. Hoffman wrote:
> At 12:50 PM 6/9/2006, Jorgen Bodde wrote:
>> Hi Philip,
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>> Thanks for the info. The problem is that wx-config outputs a whole lot of flags including the /usr/lib .. /usr/lib contains a lot of libs I need so I think I will have to make shortcuts to them all ..
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>> But, it sounds doable! Thanks!
>>
>> - Jorgen
>>
>> Phillip Hellewell wrote:
>>> On 6/9/06, *Jorgen Bodde* <solidstl at xs4all.nl <mailto:solidstl at xs4all.nl>> wrote:
>>>    Hi Alex,
>>>    Thank you for your reply. I want to statically link as much libs as
>>>    possible (especially wxGTK2.6.3) .. The reason is that my app needs to
>>>    distributed. When I have wxGTK2.6.1 installed in /usr/lib it always
>>>    takes those instead of my own absolute path.
>>>    I do not really mind if it is portable or not, I just want GCC to take
>>>    the proper libraries. And I feel limited now because I do have wxGTK
>>>    2.6.1 installed as RPM (in /usr/lib) because it is needed by some apps,
>>>    but I cannot even link against my own built wx-libs (located somewhere
>>>    else) because GCC always takes the .so versions in /usr/lib. To me that
>>>    sounds rather limiting.
>>>
>>> Here is a trick I learned.  Just make a directory, for example /usr/lib/static, and create symbolic links in there that point to the libraries you want to link statically.
>>> Then all you need is a LINK_DIRECTORIES( /usr/lib/static ), and thenit will pick those static libraries first.
>>> Phillip Hellewell
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> The other option is to add -static to the link flags.  For example when building 
> cmake for sunos we do this:CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=-Bstatic
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> -Bill
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