Tyler Roscoe wrote:
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 07:01:23PM -0500, David Manura wrote:
CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX is blank on MSVC, unlike on most platforms
(MinGW included):
I don't know how to solve your problem but none of the Windows libraries
I've seen use the convention of putting "lib" at the beginning of
library names. CMake is simply doing what most VS developers would
expect.
So, on linux/unix systems lib goes in front of the library so that it
can be used with -l. For example libfoo.a or libfoo.so can be linked
with -lfoo. However on windows there is no implied prefix with linking,
to link library foo you put foo.lib on the link line. That will link to
foo.lib which might be a static library or an import library for
foo.dll. So, by adding lib to foo.lib on windows libfoo.lib, you have
changed the name of the library from foo to libfoo.
-Bill
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