[CMake] Problem with recognising the MSYS environment

[Arjen Markus]

On 2009-04-17 10:02, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Zitat von Arjen Markus <arjen.markus at deltares.nl>:
>> With -G "MSYS Makefiles" I do get the proper setting for MSYS.
>> The find_library command still insists on using the MS Visual C/C++
>> versions of the libraries, though, so I need to use my workaround
>> still. But at least one point is solved.
> 
> What libraries do you want to lookup with find_library()? If those are 
> system/compiler libraries (e.g. ws2), don't do that but link them by 
> their name, e.g. target_link_libraries(x ws2). This will always give you 
> the right one.
> Find_library() should only be used for libraries that are not system or 
> compiler specific, e.g. you look but libfoo but never for libm.
> 

Werner suggested that I use CMake 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2, as he did not
have these problems. Indeed, with CMake 2.6.3 the correct import
libraries are found.

Regards,

Arjen


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