[CMake] Static linking and find_library

[Bill Hoffman]

Marcel Loose wrote:
> Ping!
> 
> I sent this mail more than a week ago, but got no answers. 
> 
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> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been searching the documentation, but couldn't find a way to
> specify that I want to create a statically linked binary. The only
> platform-specific and even compiler-specific answer I could find was to
> add "-static" to CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS.
> 
> Now this solves only part of the problem. Suppose I want to link against
> the static library of some 3rd party package Foo. Suppose that Foo only
> supplies a libfoo.so (but I'm unaware of this fact).
> 
> When I search for the foo-library using find_library(foo_library foo) I
> find a match, so CMake happily trods on. But when I type 'make', I'll
> discover to my dismay that the system cannot create a  statically linked
> executable, because it cannot find libfoo.a. Bummer!
> 
> So my question is twofold:
> 
> 1) Is there a generic platform- and compiler-independent way to specify
> that you want to create a statically linked executable?
> 
No.
> 2) How can I persuade find_library() to only search for static
> libraries?
> 
You can't.

-Bill

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