[CMake] question about linker flags from PKGCONFIG

Andriy Rysin arysin at myrealbox.com
Sun Jul 2 12:24:17 EDT 2006


Hi

I've got a question about PKGCONFIG usage
Let's say I've got SOMELIB_CFLAGS and SOMELIB_LD_FLAGS from PKGCONFIG by
this:

PKGCONFIG(somelib SOMELIB_INCLUDE_DIR SOMELIB_LINK_DIR SOMELIB_LD_FLAGS
SOMELIB_CFLAGS)

I could use
SET(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${SOMELIB_CFLAGS} ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}")
to set includes for that dir, but I could not find any CMAKE_LD_FLAGS to
add SOMELIB_LD_FLAGS to, so that I've got my library included on linking
stage

I would really appreciate any help here.

Thanks,
Andriy

P.S. BTW as far as I understand *_INCLUDE_DIR and *_LINK_DIR are quite
useless for application developer, am I correct?





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