Greetings, I'm building a project that depends on a Windows library -- Secur32.Lib -- that is included in the regular library search path but is not one of the specific libraries that the compiler normally links to. In *NIX command-line terms, the "-L<path>" is OK, I only need to specify the "-lSecur32" part.
If I put "#pragma comment (lib, "Secur32.Lib")" in the cpp file, the system finds and links it. If I omit that, then the build fails with an unresolved external symbol. I cannot find a way to accomplish this in the CMakeLists.txt file rather than relying on the #pragma. CMake complains that it doesn't know how to build it, though I've (tried to) set the IMPORTED property. I've tried various combinations of: find_library(SECUR32 Secur32) add_library(Secur32 SHARED IMPORTED) target_link_libraries(MyTarget Secur32) I have not tried to set IMPORTED_LOCATION, because libraries with that name exist in several locations, and the compiler actually knows better than I do which one to use -- e.g., one of them is in: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.16299.0\um\x64\Secur32.Lib We're building in VisualStudio 2017 as a CMake project. We have not generated and are not using VS ",proj" or ".sln" files. We're aiming to build this as a multi-platform application. (The dependence on this library is wrapped in the appropriate #if defined ... #endif directives.) Any enlightenment would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Ted Hall
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