[CMake] How to extract the directory path from find_library ?

[Witold E Wolski]

Hi Eike,

Thx for the good advice.

Witold

On 14 December 2012 14:32, Rolf Eike Beer <eike at sf-mail.de> wrote:

> Am , schrieb Witold E Wolski:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> I am using
>>
>> FIND_LIBRARY(CPPUNIT_LIBRARY NAMES cppunit HINTS
>> ${CPPUNIT_INCLUDE_DIR}/../lib)
>>
>>
>> to find library locations. But what I am needing is the directory
>> containing the lib and not the full path.
>> How do I get it?
>>
>
> cmake --help-command get_filename_component
>
> And if you think about using that for linking: all you need is the full
> path. Just pass that to target_link_libraries. Don't even think about
> messing around with link_directories().
>
> Eike
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