[CMake] Generated VC8 project don't change the library paths

[Radu Mihai]

Thank you for the answer.

I tried it out & the right values get propagated in the VC project.

It would be nice to have the same kind of build-type solution for  
LINK_DIRECTORIES. Then VC could pick-up different paths depending on  
the configuration from the IDE..

ex:
LINK_DIRECTORIES(optimized /foo/libopt
					debug /foo/libdbg)
Together with suppressing the addition of $(OutDir) at the end of  
paths, this would mean that the paths used could be completely  
determined from cmake for all configurations.

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Radu Mihai
radu at cm-labs.com



On 1-Sep-06, at 12:06 PM, Brad King wrote:

> Radu Mihai wrote:
>> Hello, first time on the list
>>
>> I am working on a project that links with some external libs that we
>> build ourselves (OpenSceneGraph).
>> To accommodate the use of release and debug versions the current  
>> layout
>> looks like this:
>> osg/lib.rel/ .....
>> osg/lib.dbg/ .....
>>
>> The CMakeLists.txt for our code has this to set the directory to  
>> add to
>> search for libs:
>>
>> set(tool_libs ${OSG_ROOT}/lib.${${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}_DIR}/)
> [snip]
>> Is there any way to set LINK_DIRECTORIES based on the  
>> configuration in
>> such a way that VC8(7,6) will have the directory change when the  
>> build
>> type is changed in the IDE ?
>
> CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is not used by the VS generators.  It is used by the
> Makefile generators to select which configuration to build.  Since VS
> selects the configuration at build time CMake generates all available
> configurations into the project files.  The way to change a path on a
> per-configuration basis is to use ${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR} which expands to
> "." on Makefile generators and "$(OutDir)" on VS generators.  For VS
> this will give you "Debug" and "Release" at build time depending on  
> the
> configuration chosen.
>
> Instead of using link directories should specify full paths to the
> libraries to be linked.  You can switch between release and debug
> libraries like this:
>
> SET(MY_LIBS optimized /path/to/lib.rel/foo_opt.lib
>             debug     /path/to/lib.dbg/foo_dbg.lib)
>
> Then use TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES with ${MY_LIBS}.
>
> -Brad