[CMake] find library for static libraries

[Yuri Timenkov]

Hi David, Robert,

In my project I used the approach taken from FindBoost:

include(MacroPushRequiredVars)
macro_push_variables(CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES)

if(UNIX AND WITH_MY_LIB_STATIC)
    # Find only static libraries
    set(CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES ".a")
endif(UNIX AND WITH_MY_LIB_STATIC)

find_library(MY_LIB NAMES thelibrary ...)

macro_pop_variables(CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES)

Actually this code was written for CMake 2.4 and now there may be more
convenient functions to push/pop vars. The MacroPushRequiredVars is written
by Alexander Neundorf, you can find it with your favorite search engine.

For windows things may be a bit trickier and heavily depend on particular
library architecture.

Regards,
Yuri

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:51 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:

> Does:
>
>   find_library(
>     MY_LIB
>     libthelibrary.a
>     PATHS
>   ...
>   )
>
> work?
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Robert Bielik <robert.bielik at xponaut.se>wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to use find_library to find static (.a) libraries on Mac OS X
>> (cmake 2.8.1). In a lib path I have f.i.:
>>
>> .../lib/libthelibrary.a
>> .../lib/libthelibrary.dylib
>>
>> and with:
>>
>> find_library(
>>   MY_LIB
>>   thelibrary
>>   PATHS
>> ...
>> )
>>
>> it consequently finds only the .dylib ones, whereas I'd like to get hold
>> of the .a ones...
>>
>> How to?
>>
>> TIA
>> /Rob
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