[CMake] Lib dependencies discovery

[Hendrik Sattler]

Am Mittwoch 25 April 2007 00:20 schrieb Pascal Fleury:
> I have another issue, that libtool solved by the *.la files. I would like
> to install my library with some information about what other libs need to
> be linked to it when being used in an app. For DLLs, this is trivial
> mostly, as it contains this information (Linux) or forced to have no
> unsolved symbols (Windows).
>
> If distributing a static lib, there may be dependencies that the user
> should know. I would like to ship a little app-config that will tell the
> user (or a tool being used) which are these libs.
>
> So finally my question: what is a portable cmake construct to find out the
> result of the various LINK_LIBRARIES and TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES and friends
> for a given target library?

Create a pkg-config file. Portable and easy to use.

HS