[CMake] simple project in Visual Studio 2008

[Jos.van.den.Oever at panalytical.com]

"Yuri V. Timenkov" <ytimenkov at parallels.com> wrote on 08/19/2008 02:05:04 
PM:

> Are following posts solve your problem?
> 
> http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2008-July/023099.html
> http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2006-September/011100.html
> http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2005-February/006080.html

Yes they do. The tricky point was having to know that the symbol 
${LIBRARYNAME}_EXPORTS is set when building the library.
Then adding something along these lines in the header file solves the 
problem:

#ifdef _WIN32
#  ifdef testc2_EXPORTS
#    define WHATEVER __declspec( dllexport )
#  else
#    define WHATEVER __declspec( dllimport )
#  endif
#else
#  define WHATEVER 
#endif

WHATEVER float LibC2Func();

So now I can get a simple project with one dll and one exe to compile, but 
I still do not understand which program determines whether the .exe should 
link to a .lib or a .dll. Does the Microsoft Visual Studio compiler 
determine this or does CMake inspect the header files?
I find it strange that the linking command depends on the contents of the 
header files. Is there a reason for this?

Cheers,
Jos

 
  
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