I'm using CMake 3.12-rc1 on Windows 10. I have the following `CMakeLists.txt`:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.8) project(cmake_test) unset(CMAKE_IMPORT_LIBRARY_SUFFIX) add_library(main MODULE "main.c") The generator is Visual Studio 15 2017. I would like to suppress the "/IMPLIB" argument created for the "main" library. In my real project, I have static and shared libraries named the same. This works fine, because they have different extensions (lib vs dll), but a problem arises when the linker tries to create an import library for "something.dll" named "something.lib", while also trying to link against a static library named "something.lib". The import library is not needed though; in CMake terminology the DLL is a "module" ie. loaded via DllOpen(). The documentation suggested that calling "add_library()" with "MODULE" was what I needed here. Unfortunately the resulting VS project still contains an import library flag for the linker. A Stackoverflow answer[1] suggested unsetting "CMAKE_IMPORT_LIBRARY_SUFFIX" because the source indicates[2] this will stop the flag from appearing. But all this seems to do is drop the filename from the generated project; it still contains this now-incorrect flag that references a directory instead of a full path: <ImportLibrary>C:/Users/heerij/Code/cmake-ex-2/build/Debug/</ImportLibrary> How do I prevent the import library creation? - Jason [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34575066/how-to-prevent-cmake-from-issuing-implib [2] https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/blob/master/Source/cmComputeLinkInformation.cxx#L271
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