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123r789
123r789

Reputation: 1790

How to specify the path for .lib files in cmake?

I am trying to build a project with cmake. In that i mentioned seperate folders for .dll and .lib. Dll's are created in the folder which i mentioned but .lib files are not generated in the folder which i mentioned. Please give a solution for this problem.

The command which i used in cmakelists.txt is :

set(CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY My_Lib)

SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(MyApi PROPERTIES 
                                    LINKER_LANGUAGE CPP 
                                    RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY My_Binary
                                    LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY My_Lib)

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2250

Answers (1)

ComicSansMS
ComicSansMS

Reputation: 54589

Quoting from the CMake docs:

For DLL platforms the DLL part of a shared library is treated as a runtime target and the corresponding import library is treated as an archive target.

So instead of setting LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY or CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY you need to set ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY or CMAKE_ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY (one of the two suffices).

Upvotes: 5

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