[CMake] Finding libraries under Windows

[Bill Hoffman]

Leon Moctezuma wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm Leon Moctezuma, a cs student, who is participating in GSoC and 
> working on Freepv, we are trying to use cmake
> instead of autoconf for the projects building process we have been 
> able to create a basic CMakeLists.txt under both
> Linux and Windows, It works almost fine.
>
> At this point I'm very frustrated, after spending several days trying 
> to find common libraries such as zlib, glut or jpeg
> under Windows, I'm stuck in the same point, I have to indicate where 
> the libraries are using the cmake GUI.
> I've tried to do several things such as adding libraries' paths to lib 
> and include windows' environment variables, I also
> created CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH and CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH environment 
> variables and tried to make my own
> FindLibrary.cmake script, but nothing seems to work, could some one 
> guide me, for an example you could use
> zlib... which has zconf.h and zlib.h headers and zlib.dll...
>
For one thing you need to find zlib.lib, can you give some example cmake 
code that you are using?  When
you use Find_library, you want to look for zlib and CMake will take care 
of the extensions.

-Bill