[CMake] Project being (unnecessarily) relinked
Jesper Eskilson
jesper at eskilson.se
Wed Sep 12 04:10:47 EDT 2007
Jesper Eskilson wrote:
> Jesper Eskilson wrote:
>> Mike Jackson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 11, 2007, at 3:03 AM, Jesper Eskilson wrote:
>>>
>>>>> A related question: if I include an external project in my solution
>>>>> using
>>>>>
>>>>> include_external_msproject(Bar ../../Bar/Bar.vcproj)
>>>>>
>>>>> can I later refer to this project using
>>>>>
>>>>> target_link_libraries(Foo Bar)
>>>>>
>>>>> More generally, what is the correct way to specify that a CMake
>>>>> target should be linked with some external library?
>>>>
>>>> It is this last question I would like to get an answer to.
>>>
>>>
>>> Say you have another project that produces a library called
>>> libBar.dll and that library is located in C:\Libs then you can refer
>>> to that library in CMake directly. In other words, the cmake code you
>>> have is absolutely correct:
>>>
>>> Target_link_Libraries(Foo Bar)
>>>
>>> with the following caveat: libBar.dll MUST be in a known directory
>>> that the linker will look in. You can make sure of this by adding the
>>> following cmake code above the "target_link_libraries" code:
>>>
>>> LINK_DIRECTORIES ("C:\Libs")
>>
>> Ah. So if libBar.dll and libBar.lib are in different directories,
>> *both* directories must be added using LINK_DIRECTORIES(), right?
>>
>> That should be documented somewhere (if it is, I've managed to miss it).
>>
>
> After testing this, it appears that I still get the same relinking
> behavior.
Well, that turned out to be a little hasty conclusion.
In case of linking with a DLL, having paths to both the dll and import
lib in LINK_DIRECTORIES avoids relinking. So far, so good.
However, I still get relinks due to a dependency on a static library. In
this case, I'm unable to add the path using LINK_DIRECTORIES since the
path is different depending on the configuration. I'm currently adding
the path using the LINK_FLAGS_{DEBUG, ...} target property (which
probably is the cause of the relinking).
So, I would like to be able to do something like, given the debug
version of MyStaticLib.lib is in lib/win32/debug:
LINK_DIRECTORIES_DEBUG(lib/win32/debug)
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(Foo MyStaticLib)
To make things more difficult, I cannot do something like:
LINK_DIRECTORIES("lib/win32/$(ConfigurationName)")
because the configurations available for the static library
(MyStaticLib.lib) do not map cleanly on the values for $(ConfigurationName).
<frustration>
Argh! Why can't things every be simple?!
</frustration>
Any hints on how to solve this?
--
/Jesper
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