[CMake] How to add CMake includes and libraries to Visual Studio Solution?

J Decker d3ck0r at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 00:03:20 EST 2012


On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:21 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:15 PM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Rolf Eike Beer <eike at sf-mail.de> wrote:
>>> J Decker wrote:
>>>> I just use
>>>> include_directories( ... )
>>>
>>> This is right.
>>>
>>>> LINK_DIRECTORIES( ...} )
>>>
>>> This is almost surely wrong. LINK_DIRECTORIES is only needed for very seldom
>>> special cases and only causes headache in all other cases.
>>
>> oh, what's the preferred method to specify the directory where the
>> library is then?
>>
>
> I believe the full path on the target_link_libraries.

I think the problem with that is if built with gcc, then the full path
to the library is encoded and you can't load the library from the
library path, but only from where it was specified.

>
> John


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