[CMake] linking with .so w/ non-standard names

[Kenneth Chang]

kchang at fiji:~$ cmake --version
cmake version 2.6-patch 2

Michael Wild wrote:
> What version of CMake are you using? Anything before 2.6 used to do 
> this, newer versions shouldn't.
>
> Michael
>
> On 14. Aug, 2009, at 18:23, Kenneth Chang wrote:
>
>> Tried this, ABCD_LIBRARY gets the correct path, but for some reason, 
>> target_link_libraries likes to convert it to -Lxxx -lyyy on the link 
>> line. (I've previously typed the name of the file directly into the 
>> target_link_libraries() command too)
>>
>> I'm seeing some of these properties like EXTERNAL_OBJECT, but it's 
>> not really working either.
>>
>> set_source_files_properties(
>> abcd.so
>> PROPERTIES
>> EXTERNAL_OBJECT true
>> GENERATED true
>> LOCATION /path/to/so
>> )
>>
>> add_executable( sfitqd
>> sfitqd.cc
>> abcd.so
>> )
>>
>>
>> Michael Wild wrote:
>>> Perhaps something like this:
>>>
>>> set( CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX_bak ${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX} )
>>> set( CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX )
>>> find_library( ABCD_LIBRARY abcd )
>>> set( CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX ${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX_bak} )
>>>
>>> ....
>>>
>>> target_link_libraries( a.out ${ABCD_LIBRARY} )
>>>
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> On 14. Aug, 2009, at 0:16, Clinton Stimpson wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> How about this:
>>>> target_link_libraries(a.out /path/to/abcd.so)
>>>> If you use find_library(), then you should be getting full names 
>>>> already.
>>>>
>>>> Clint
>>>>
>>>> Kenneth Chang wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have this third party library that has a .so named like abcd.so 
>>>>> instead of libabcd.so. Putting the name in
>>>>>
>>>>> target_link_libraries( a.out abcd.so )
>>>>>
>>>>> doesn't work because this generates -labcd on the link line and 
>>>>> then ld can't find it. What do I need to do to get this to link?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> Kenny
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