Hi Daniele, the feature about CMake language I probably hate most is link_directories(). Sadly one currently needs to use it when working with software dependencies imported from PkgConfig.
What I would like to get is the following: when a list of libraries and directories is returned by PkgConfig then for every of these libraries the absolute path to the library is determined using find_library() using the given directories as hints. With that, noone needs to use link_directories() anymore. Since this would introduce new behavior people would need to adapt their CMakeLists.txt to this new feature. Therefore I think it would be a good idea to expose this new information not by new variables, but using targets. So if I search for OpenSSL using PkgConfig I would get a target PkgConfig::OpenSSL that I can link to, and that has the libraries, compile flags, include dirs and whatnot. Sadly, I don't quite understand all the macros in FindPkgConfig.cmake. Can you either point me to the right place where I would hook up something like that or try doing it? Greetings, Eike
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