[CMake] Fwd: TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES not working for MSVC

[Avanindra Singh]

Hi Martin,

You are right. I messed up between shared and static libraries. There is a
jpeg lib, which I was initially building as static lib and linking to the
main project and I don't know why
it was not getting linked. I built it as SHARED lib  and the whole project
compiled successfully.

Thanks A lot.

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the BuildingWinDLL <http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/BuildingWinDLL> link.
It was very helpful.

 I compiled the lib as SHARED (the library which was not found by the
linker) and project compiled sucessfully.
Though I still don't understand why was it not getting linked when I
compiled it as STATIC library?

Thanks a lot for replying my questions.

Regards
Avanindra

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Martin O'Brien <
martin.matthew.obrien at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you're seeing a 'Librarian' tab instead of a 'Linker' tab, then you're
> building a static library, not a dll.
>
> I'm not sure which you are expecting.
>
> Could you post the results of the build?  Seeing the actual errors would
> help.
>
>
> mm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cmake-bounces at cmake.org [mailto:cmake-bounces at cmake.org] On Behalf
> Of
> Eric Noulard
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 11:35 AM
> To: Avanindra Singh
> Cc: CMake mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CMake] Fwd: TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES not working for MSVC
>
> 2011/1/8 Avanindra Singh <avanindra.singh at gmail.com>:
> > Hi Eric,
> > Thanks for the reply. It was very useful. I incorporated the changes you
> > mentioned. I removed all the link_libraries macros
> > from the projects. Also I changed camke_minimum_version to 2.6 . I have
> > CMake 2.8 in both windows as well as Linux. Though
> > I am still getting the same errors.I would strip the project down to one
> or
> > two lib and I would get back with the results.
> > Though one point I would like to mention, the linker problem is coming
> for
> > all the libraries in project added through
> > ADD_LIBRARY macro.
>
> Do you handle the visibility of symbols in libraries properly?
> On Linux the [usual] default is to have all symbol exported whereas
> it's the converse on Windows (no symbol exported unless specified).
>
> You have to use
> __declspec(dllexport)
> __declspec(dllimport)
> statement in the Windows case.
>
> See:
> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/BuildingWinDLL
>
> --
> Erk
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