[CMake] static libs and more

[Yuri Timenkov]

On Thursday 17 July 2008 23:00:15 Alin M Elena wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1. Few days ago maybe weeks on the list I have seen a discussion about
> static/dynamic linking.
>
> One of the solution proposed there to achieve a static linking was
>
> if (UNIX)
>   set(CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES ".a;.so")
> endif(UNIX)
> Something similar can be done for windows I suspect.
>
> Maybe you can add an extra argument to find_package(... USE_STATIC)
> and internally in FindXXX.cmake to use it to find the correct linkage. Just
> an idea.
The main problem AFAIK for VS is that static and dynamic libraries are 
indistinguishable by extension. They both have a .lib one. And you don't know 
in advance is some library is static one or just import library for some 
dynamic one.

For cygwin/mingw things may be more similar to Unix.

>
> 2. I read in one post that intel was interested in cmake, fortran and
> Visual Studio.
> Having the connections with them you could ask them if they may be
> interested in cmake and MKL. Just a thought as linking against mkl (pure
> layered versions) may be quite a pain for a new user.
>
> Alin