[CMake] find_library questions

David Cole david.cole at kitware.com
Wed Aug 4 16:44:56 EDT 2010


find_library(THELIB NAMES thelibrary.${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX})


CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX includes the "." though -- so take the "." out
of the above line.....



On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Alexander Neundorf
<a.neundorf-work at gmx.net>wrote:

> On Wednesday 04 August 2010, Dennis Schridde wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 August 2010 10:03:55 Denis Scherbakov wrote:
> > > >> 1) Is it
> >
> > possible to
> >
> > > retrieve the path where find_library found the library?
> >
> > E.g. so I can setup
> >
> > > ..._LIBRARY_DIR correctly.
> > >
> > > Yes, see
> >
> > GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT.
> >
> > > 2) Is it possible to disable the "lib" prefix
> >
> > that find_library always seems to prepend when searching? I have a
> library
> >
> > that is called "thelibrary.so" instead of "libthelibrary.so".
> >
> > > Yes,
> >
> > specify name that you want to find. Like "NAMES libMyLib MyLib"
> > Ah, so NAMES
> > <name> specifies the literal name, while giving just <name> as a
> parameter
> > to find_library will prepend "lib" and append ".so"?
>
> No, Denis was only almost right.
>
> If one of the names has a suffix, this one is treated as a full filename
> and
> nothing will be prepended/appended.
> So
> find_library(THELIB NAMES thelibrary.so)
> or
> find_library(THELIB NAMES thelibrary.${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX})
> should do what you want.
>
> Alex
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