[CMake] Finding MinGW compiler libraries?

[Bob Paddock]

On Saturday 26 July 2008 03:28:59 pm Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva wrote:

> > My project needs to link against C:\MinGW\lib\libuuid.a, amoung
> > others, but it is not being found.
> >
> > I tried this:
> >
> > find_library( MinGW_Libraries uuid )
>
> find_library(MinGW_Libraries uuid "C:/MinGW/lib")
>
> Does this work?

Yes it did, thank you.

That lead to the discovery that I also need libole32.a and/or libshell32.a
When doing the same thing, the wrong ones are found:

MinGW_libole32 "C:/WINDOWS/system32/ole32.dll"
MinGW_libshell32 "C:/WINDOWS/system32/shell32.dll"
MinGW_libuuid "C:/MinGW/lib/libuuid.a"

Here is my CMakeLists.txt file, what did I do wrong?:

# Source files:
SET( SRCS part_description_aggregator.cpp tiny_xml_dump.cpp )

# wxWidgets is REQUIRED to build this project.
# wxWidgets_FOUND is set to TRUE if wxWidgets was found.
FIND_PACKAGE(wxWidgets REQUIRED base)
INCLUDE(${wxWidgets_USE_FILE})

# Note: wxWidgets_INCLUDE_DIRS is already included by wxWidgets_USE_FILE
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(
 ${part_description_aggregator_SOURCE_DIR}/PartDescriptionXMLAggregator
 ${part_description_aggregator_SOURCE_DIR}/TinyXPath
 )

if( COMMAND cmake_policy )
 cmake_policy( SET CMP0003 NEW )
endif( COMMAND cmake_policy)

find_library( MinGW_libuuid uuid ole32 shell32 "C:/MinGW/lib" )
find_library( MinGW_libole32 ole32 "C:/MinGW/lib" )
find_library( MinGW_libshell32 shell32 "C:/MinGW/lib" )

# Is there a better way to do the above?  What happens when you have dozens of 
# libraries?'

ADD_EXECUTABLE(part_description_aggregator WIN32 ${SRCS})

TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES( part_description_aggregator ${wxWidgets_LIBRARIES} 
${MinGW_libuuid} ${MinGW_libole32} ${MinGW_libshell32} TinyXPath )

INSTALL( TARGETS part_description_aggregator RUNTIME DESTINATION bin)