[CMake] FIND_LIBRARY & mingw

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Alexander.Camek at elektrobit.com schrieb:
> 
> Hi Christian,
> 
> 
>> it looks like FIND_LIBRARY is using a .lib if it can't find a 
>> .a/.dll.a when using the mingw generator (see also
>> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-windows&m=119248363310566&w=2)
> 
>> Is this a intented behaviour?
> 
> Normally under windows you will need to link against a .lib.
> CMake default settings is to look for .lib files, so this is a intentend behaviour.
> 
> So look in the file Windows.cmake in your Cmake installation path, there under modules\plattform.
> There it is set SET(CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES ".lib")
> 
That's not true - on windows with mingw you link against .a
And cmake also search for .a (and .dll.a) but *also* for .lib which is 
imho a bug. When I've an import lib for msvc - foo.lib and one for mingw 
- foo.a I get foo.a for mingw, but as soon as I remove foo.a I get 
foo.lib which is wrong.


Christian

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