[CMake] Proper way to build static binaries

[Simon Sasburg]

For MSVC I use something like this to allow linking statically to the
C/C++ runtime:

IF(MSVC)
       SET(LINK_STATIC_RUNTIME OFF CACHE BOOL "Link statically against
C/C++ runtime")
       IF(LINK_STATIC_RUNTIME)
               foreach(cfgtype ${CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES} ${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE})
                       string(TOUPPER "CMAKE_C_FLAGS_${cfgtype}" flag_var)
                       string(REGEX REPLACE "/MD" "/MT" ${flag_var}
"${${flag_var}}")
                       string(TOUPPER "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_${cfgtype}" flag_var)
                       string(REGEX REPLACE "/MD" "/MT" ${flag_var}
"${${flag_var}}")
               endforeach()
       ENDIF()
ENDIF()


On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 15:07, David Demelier <demelier.david at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm surprised to see that there is no optional [STATIC] argument in
> add_executable cmake command. I think it should be very important to have
> this because a lot of people like having static binaries.
>
> Thus for the moment what is the best way and more portable way to set a
> binary to be build as static ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> David Demelier
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