[CMake] find_library while cross compiling?

[Robert Dailey]

Should I override these variables in the android toolchain file?

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Parag Chandra <parag at ionicsecurity.com> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
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> I encountered a similar problem when I was cross-compiling for NaCl on
> Windows. You need to set various CMake variables that explicitly override
> things like the library suffix/prefix. For example, in my case I needed to
> set the following:
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> set (CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_PREFIX "lib")
> set (CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_SUFFIX ".a")
> set (CMAKE_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX ".pexe" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
> set (CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX "lib")
> set (CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX ".so")
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> Hope this helps.
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> Parag Chandra
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> On 4/30/15, 4:34 PM, "Robert Dailey" <rcdailey.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>I'm on Windows and I am cross compiling for Android NDK. I use
>>find_library() with PATHS to hunt down some libssl.a files, plus a few
>>others.
>>
>>However, find_library() says it can't find them. I'm assuming this is
>>because I'm on Windows and it doesn't recognize *.a files as a valid
>>library on that platform. Is there a way to make CMake search
>>libraries based on the platform the target is being compiled for?
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