[CMake] linking with .so w/ non-standard names

[Michael Wild]

What version of CMake are you using? Anything before 2.6 used to do  
this, newer versions shouldn't.

Michael

On 14. Aug, 2009, at 18:23, Kenneth Chang wrote:

> Tried this, ABCD_LIBRARY gets the correct path, but for some reason,  
> target_link_libraries likes to convert it to -Lxxx -lyyy on the link  
> line.  (I've previously typed the name of the file directly into the  
> target_link_libraries() command too)
>
> I'm seeing some of these properties like EXTERNAL_OBJECT, but it's  
> not really working either.
>
> set_source_files_properties(
> abcd.so
> PROPERTIES
> EXTERNAL_OBJECT true
> GENERATED true
> LOCATION /path/to/so
> )
>
> add_executable( sfitqd
> sfitqd.cc
> abcd.so
> )
>
>
> Michael Wild wrote:
>> Perhaps something like this:
>>
>> set( CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX_bak ${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX} )
>> set( CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX )
>> find_library( ABCD_LIBRARY abcd )
>> set( CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX ${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX_bak} )
>>
>> ....
>>
>> target_link_libraries( a.out ${ABCD_LIBRARY} )
>>
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On 14. Aug, 2009, at 0:16, Clinton Stimpson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> How about this:
>>> target_link_libraries(a.out /path/to/abcd.so)
>>> If you use find_library(), then you should be getting full names  
>>> already.
>>>
>>> Clint
>>>
>>> Kenneth Chang wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have this third party library that has a .so named like abcd.so  
>>>> instead of libabcd.so.  Putting the name in
>>>>
>>>> target_link_libraries( a.out abcd.so )
>>>>
>>>> doesn't work because this generates -labcd on the link line and  
>>>> then ld can't find it.  What do I need to do to get this to link?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Kenny
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