So I've got a library I'm compiling and I need to link different third party things in depending on if it's the debug or release build (specifically the release or debug versions of those libraries). Is there an easy way to do this in Cmake?
Edit: I should note I'm using visual studio
According to the CMake documentation:
target_link_libraries(<target> [lib1 [lib2 [...]]] [[debug|optimized|general] <lib>] ...)
A "debug", "optimized", or "general" keyword indicates that the library immediately following it is to be used only for the corresponding build configuration.
So you should be able to do this:
add_executable( MyEXE ${SOURCES})
target_link_libraries( MyEXE debug 3PDebugLib)
target_link_libraries( MyEXE optimized 3PReleaseLib)
I would like to add a few notes to the previous answers.
If you need to create a list of multiple files you want to link and store that in a cache variable then you need to add the optimized or debug specified before each and every library. This can be especially useful for larger makefiles/projects.
So for example you could do something like this:
set( MyFavLib_LIBRARIES
debug debug/module1.lib optimized release/module1.lib
debug debug/module2.lib optimized release/module2.lib )
target_link_libraries( app ${MyFavLib_LIBRARIES} )
What worked for me was to use $(Configuration) macro in a lib path provided to cmake.
So, assuming libs are stored in separate, correctly named folders, e.g.:
C:\boost\lib\Debug\libfoo.lib
C:\boost\lib\Release\libfoo.lib
You can then call cmake with:
cmake -G "Visual Studio 10 2010" -DBOOST_LIBRARYDIR=C:\boost\lib\$(Configuration)\libfoo.lib
That'll generate .vcxproj with Additional Dependencies including C:\boost\lib\$(Configuration)\libfoo.lib, what is evaluated to either C:\boost\lib\Release\libfoo.lib or C:\boost\lib\Debug\libfoo.lib depending on a chosen Configuration.