complex situation: Re: [Cmake] how to find STATIC library, ignore DYNAMIC library

[Brad King]

Liwei Peng wrote:

> My situation is a little bit complex. 
> 1) My program needs to link about 5 libraries
> including HDF. while I want to have HDF statically
> linked, for the other 4 libraries, I want them to be
> dynamically linked.
> 
> 2) The program is being ported to multiple platforms
> including linux, sgi, ibm aix, sun solaris, even
> windows. so a platform-specific flag may not be easy
> to do by myself. if CMake provides this flag, that'll
> be great.

As a temporary solution you can create a symlink for the static library 
yourself:

IF(UNIX)
   EXEC_PROGRAM(ln ARGS -sf "${HDF5_LIBRARY}"
                            "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/libmyhdf5.a")
ENDIF(UNIX)

Then include PROJECT_BINARY_DIR in the LINK_DIRECTORIES and link to 
myhdf5 instead.  This way the linker will only be able to pick up the 
static version.  I have not tried this, though.

-Brad