Upon further reflection the abs paths for every lib is absolutely not defensible.
1) Pass only the short lib name to target_link_libraries 2) Add absolute path to future target_link_directories if you must Then it's one (1) long path on the command line string and not N long paths fore each lib I seriously can't believe in 2017 I am actually having this conversation. Did I miss something here or does Kitware really mean to have package maintainers spec target_link_libraries( targ INTERFACE C:\projects\lib1\install\lib\lib1 C:\projects\lib1\install\lib\lib2 C:\projects\lib1\install\lib\lib3 ) and not target_link_libraries( targ INTERFACE lib1 lib2 lib3 ) target_link_directories( targ INTERFACE C:\projects\lib1\install\lib ) Does Kitware understand the length problem on command line tools and get the difference I am trying to convey here? As far as cmd line would go "one of these is not like the other", but would have same effect. If implemented for projs like ITK maybe I could build is a place other than C:\
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