Thanks for your reply. I am pretty sure without giving the full path, The
link_directories and target_link_library does not work under my case. And for
the dll thing, is there a way i can use cmake to make it available for the
application at runtime?
Regards,
zhigao
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From: Tyler Roscoe [ty...@cryptio.net]
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 12:50 AM
To: Cheng Zhigao
Cc: cmake@cmake.org
Subject: Re: [CMake] using cmake to link window lib and dll files
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 09:37:31PM +0800, Cheng Zhigao wrote:
> 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
link_directories() + target_link_libraries() should work. Maybe the
problem has to do with your confusion on this issue:
> 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.
You don't link against a dll. You link against the import library (.lib)
and then the DLL must be available to your application at runtime.
There's a page in the CMake wiki with more details about building
libraries on Windows.
tyler
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