[CMake] Linking 3rd party libraries

Tyler Roscoe tyler at cryptio.net
Thu Jun 25 02:46:14 EDT 2009


On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 07:19:18PM -0500, Nathan Paul wrote:
> Doesn't target_link_libraries only allow you to change the library used for
> the configuration, not set the library path. 

Yes.

> Sure I could prepend the correct path to the library, but it still
> doesn't change the library path.

I'm not aware of another way to do this that will work generators that
don't use CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE (like Visual Studio). If you only need to
support makefiles, you could do:

link_directories (/some/path/including/${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE})

tyler


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