[CMake] Setting "Link Library Dependencies" Flag in VS 2005

[Clinton Stimpson]

The answer is here:
http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2008-December/025814.html
Is that the same thread you're referring to?
Hint:  use target_link_libraries instead of add_dependency.

Clint

Hisham Chowdhury wrote:
> Hello,
> I saw this issue in one of the email thread online. I am also facing the same issue. So, I am wondering, were anybody able to solve this issue?
>
> Problem description(from email from Anupam Malhotra):
> Let me tell u a small example:
>
> I have a project say master.sln and in that solution I am having 3
> different projects(.vcproj) which are making three libraries:
> a.lib,b.lib,c.lib.
>
> Now using the command ADD_DEPENDENCIES, I am setting the project
> dependencies to specify that a.lib depends on b.lib and c.lib. Whenever
> we build a.lib, this would build b.lib and c.lib before it actually
> builds a.lib since b.lib and c.lib are the dependencies.
>
> In Visual Studio 6, once we specify these dependencies , after a.lib is
> built, all the symbols in b.lib and c.lib are linked into a.lib
> automatically. So in this case if I want to use a,b,c in another exe
> (say myexe), I can just link to a.lib. In this case b.lib and c.lib will
> automatically be linked into myexe
>
> However in VS 2005, b.lib and c.lib are not automatically linked into
> a.lib. So while building a.lib, we have to turn this parameter(Link
> Library Dependencies) on. If this parameter is turned off and we try to
> link a.lib with myexe, we get errors for all the symbols belonging to
> b.lib and c.lib since they are not linked into a.lib.
>
> Can anybody please help me on how to force b and c to link with a for Vstudio2005/2008  using cmake?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Hisham
>
>
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