[CMake] FindPkgConfig: Using *_LIBRARY_DIRS

[David Cole]

Try:
set_target_properties(qlom
       PROPERTIES
       LINK_FLAGS ${GLOM_LDFLAGS})

(without the double quotes).....


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Murray Cumming <murrayc at murrayc.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:42 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > pkg_search_module() defines SOMEPREFIX_LIBRARY_DIRS among other things,
> > as mentioned here
> >
> http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake?root=CMake&view=markup
> > (better than the documentation at
> > http://www.itk.org/Wiki/CMake:How_To_Find_Libraries
> > )
> >
> > But how can I use those directories so my executable can actually be
> > linked against the SOMEPREFIX_LIBRARIES libraries that I've specified to
> > target_link_libraries().
>
> I'm still stuck at this stage. I've tried doing this:
>
> set_target_properties(qlom
>        PROPERTIES
>        LINK_FLAGS "${GLOM_LDFLAGS}")
>
> But the linker flags then seem to be separated by ";" instead of spaces,
> leading to error such as this:
>
> c++: unrecognized option
> '-pthread;-L/opt/gnome228/lib;-lglom-1.12;-lgiomm-2.4;-lgdamm-4.0;-lxml
>
> ++-2.6;-lgio-2.0;-lgmodule-2.0;-lgda-4.0;-lgthread-2.0;-lrt;-lxml2;-lglibmm-2.4;-lgobject-2.0;-lsigc-2.0;-lglib-2.0'
>
> Surely there must be a simple way to use pkg-config?
>
>
> My full CMakeList.txt so far is here, in case it's helpful:
> c++: unrecognized option
> '-pthread;-L/opt/gnome228/lib;-lglom-1.12;-lgiomm-2.4;-lgdamm-4.0;-lxml
>
> ++-2.6;-lgio-2.0;-lgmodule-2.0;-lgda-4.0;-lgthread-2.0;-lrt;-lxml2;-lglibmm-2.4;-lgobject-2.0;-lsigc-2.0;-lglib-2.0'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/murrayc/checkout/gnome/qlom_murrayc'
>
>
> > Actually, I would much rather just tell the build system to use
> > SOMEPREFIX_LDFLAGS instead of dealing with the directories and libraries
> > separately. That's what I do with autoconf/automake.
> >
> >
> > Also, if I use several libraries, do I need separate pkg_search_module()
> > calls, and therefore several sets of variables? I'd much rather just
> > give a list of libraries and get one set of CFLAGS and LDFLAGS. Again,
> > that's what I do with autoconf/automake.
>
> --
> murrayc at murrayc.com
> www.murrayc.com
> www.openismus.com
>
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