Hugo Heden wrote:


Is there a reason for why CMake does not complain about the OP:s
suggestion, "TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(hellow fred)"?

In general, I would want CMake to be stricter and complain more, to
make it faster catching bugs like this . Is there a way (a command
line flag, a variable or something) to make CMake stricter?


The code you had was valid. If CMake complained about every external library that was used without a full path 90% of the projects would be complaining. Take for instance linking in libm on a unix machine.

target_link_libraries(foo m)

Many times this is a built in library, and you do not want to attempt to specify the full path to the library. If you did, you would have to understand way too much about how each compiler figures stuff like that out.

However, I suppose it would not be that hard to add a global property that gave a warning for all non-full path library links. I am just not sure how useful it would be. However, as a matter of style it is certainly preferable to specify a full path to as many libraries as you can.

-Bill

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