[CMake] Visual Studio Generator: different Link paths for Debug and Release

[Eric Noulard]

2010/8/25  <aaron.meadows at thomsonreuters.com>:
> Hi all.
>
>
>
> I need to use different link paths for Debug and Release builds of my
> software.  I’m building with the Visual Studio Generator (2005, 2008, etc).
> I had put this in my CMakeLists.txt, but as it turns out, this doesn’t do
> what I need (likely because of the single pass to generate the project
> files):
>
>
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> if(DEBUG)
>
>  link_directories("$ENV{RDFD3RDPARTYDIR}/lib/Debug")
>
> else()
>
>  link_directories("$ENV{RDFD3RDPARTYDIR}/lib/Release")
>
> endif()

I wouldn't use link_directories but

target_link_libraries(<target>
                             debug $ENV{RDFD3RDPARTYDIR}/lib/Debug/whateverlib
                             optimized
$ENV{RDFD3RDPARTYDIR}/lib/Release/whateverlib )


> So, my question: is there a way to have different link directory paths for
> each configuration in visual studio without generating multiple build
> directories for VS?

I think target_link_libraries with full path to lib is preferred to
link_directories + target_link_libraries with no path.



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