When defining a library via add_library() it's possible to link against it by just putting its name into target_link_libraries(). Is there some way of wrapping up an external library in a similar way?
As a concrete example I'm playing around with gtest[1] via
externalproject_add() like this:
externalproject_add(gtest
SOURCE_DIR ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/gtest
BINARY_DIR gtest-build
INSTALL_COMMAND "" # omit installation
)
Then to link to it I need to use
target_link_libraries(test
-L${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/gtest-build -lgtest -lpthread
)
Is there some way to wrap that all up in a target that I can pass
straight to target_link_libraries()?
Or is my only option to create a variable that expands to those
compiler flags?
/M
[1]: https://code.google.com/p/googletest/
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