[CMake] Project being (unnecessarily) relinked

[Jack Kelly]

Jesper Eskilson wrote
> Well, that turned out to be a little hasty conclusion.
> 
> In case of linking with a DLL, having paths to both the dll and import 
> lib in LINK_DIRECTORIES avoids relinking. So far, so good.
> 
> However, I still get relinks due to a dependency on a static library. In 
> this case, I'm unable to add the path using LINK_DIRECTORIES since the 
> path is different depending on the configuration. I'm currently adding 
> the path using the LINK_FLAGS_{DEBUG, ...} target property (which 
> probably is the cause of the relinking).
> 
> So, I would like to be able to do something like, given the debug 
> version of MyStaticLib.lib is in lib/win32/debug:
> 
> LINK_DIRECTORIES_DEBUG(lib/win32/debug)
> TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(Foo MyStaticLib)
> 
> To make things more difficult, I cannot do something like:
> 
> LINK_DIRECTORIES("lib/win32/$(ConfigurationName)")
> 
> because the configurations available for the static library 
> (MyStaticLib.lib) do not map cleanly on the values for 
> $(ConfigurationName).

Is there any reason why

IF("${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}" STREQUAL "Debug")
   LINK_DIRECTORIES("/path/to/debug/lib")
ELSE("${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}" STREQUAL "Debug")
   LINK_DIRECTORIES("/path/to/release/lib")
ENDIF("${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}" STREQUAL "Debug")

won't work for you?

-- Jack