Hi,

I have used Cmake to build a VS2005C++ project under windows. And for the 
project i need to link to some external library. I can manually do it under 
VS2005, but i wish i could do it using cmake statement.

The project name is TEST, i put the external library in a folder named 
${TEST_SOURCE_DIR}/epanet/ which contains the epanet2.h epanet2.lib and 
epanet2.dll files. I use the Include_directories and link_directories to point 
to the /epanet/ folder.     And i use TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES to link the 
library. However, i still have to put the full path like 
${TEST_SOURCE_DIR}/epanet2/epanet2.lib to link to the library including file 
extension. And I do not know how to link to the epanet2.dll file. I have to 
manually copy the dll file in order to make the code to work otherwise it will 
complain cannot find the .dll file.  How can i do that in cmake so that both 
the .lib file and .dll file will be linked without manual actions? Thanks.

Regards,
zhigao



Below is the cmake file
=============================

PROJECT(TEST)
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)

SET(TEST_SRCS
        ${TEST_SOURCE_DIR}/DLLTest.cpp)


ADD_EXECUTABLE(TEST
        ${TEST_SRCS})

INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${TEST_SOURCE_DIR}/epanet)
LINK_DIRECTORIES(${TEST_SOURCE_DIR}/epanet)

SET(_LINK_EPANET_LIB ${TEST_SOURCE_DIR}/epanet/epanet2.lib)

TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(TEST ${_LINK_EPANET_LIB})


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