Hi all, I've been searching the documentation, but couldn't find a way to specify that I want to create a statically linked binary. The only platform-specific and even compiler-specific answer I could find was to add "-static" to CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS.
Now this solves only part of the problem. Suppose I want to link against the static library of some 3rd party package Foo. Suppose that Foo only supplies a libfoo.so (but I'm unaware of this fact). When I search for the foo-library using find_library(foo_library foo) I find a match, so CMake happily trods on. But when I type 'make', I'll discover to my dismay that the system cannot create a statically linked executable, because it cannot find libfoo.a. Bummer! So my question is twofold: 1) Is there a generic platform- and compiler-independent way to specify that you want to create a statically linked executable? 2) How can I persuade find_library() to only search for static libraries? Best regards, Marcel Loose. _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
