[CMake] How to deal with pre built 3rd party libs?

[Leif Walsh]

Look at things involving the IMPORTED property of add_library. You probably want to check the headers in to your repo. Or use or create a FindLibXml2.cmake. 

Or if you are compiling libxml2 as part of your build process, look at the ExternalProject module. 

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On May 15, 2012, at 17:18, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I have a project that depends on 3rd party dll's (libxml2).
>> 
>> Is there a 'best practice' to deal with associated files, .h, .lib .dll of
>> such within a CMake project?
>> 
>> My library needs to link to the 3rd party lib, and needs its dll for
>> execution (obviously), so I feel the need for copying this DLL to my libs
>> 'install/bin' folder, so that any of my executables can run, without getting
>> a '...dll not found'.
>> 
>> 
> 
> I wrote cmake macros to generate a batch file containing cmake -e
> commands to copy the dlls to each configuration. This I run as a
> target in my projects.
> 
> John
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