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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2020-08-06 14:45:58 (GMT) |
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| committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2020-08-06 14:47:49 (GMT) |
| commit | ba6aa54b8d7510097678c27e1f8dcede52e0f4b3 (patch) | |
| tree | 248055c6cb70a64cc6d0c9564ac590a0c13c12ef | |
| parent | b1892fb98cf65168ecb1f21b8b8c0d113c5ddf95 (diff) | |
| parent | 1f1feb72f8b275208a1bb75b728d092d7943229e (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'doc-imported-dll-implib'
1f1feb72f8 Help: Document in add_library that IMPORTED_IMPLIB is for DLL import libs
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !5096
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/command/add_library.rst | 7 |
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diff --git a/Help/command/add_library.rst b/Help/command/add_library.rst index ed8447e..52536bb 100644 --- a/Help/command/add_library.rst +++ b/Help/command/add_library.rst @@ -144,7 +144,12 @@ The ``<type>`` must be one of: References a library file located outside the project. The :prop_tgt:`IMPORTED_LOCATION` target property (or its per-configuration variant :prop_tgt:`IMPORTED_LOCATION_<CONFIG>`) specifies the - location of the main library file on disk. + location of the main library file on disk. In the case of a ``SHARED`` + library on Windows, the :prop_tgt:`IMPORTED_IMPLIB` target property + (or its per-configuration variant :prop_tgt:`IMPORTED_IMPLIB_<CONFIG>`) + specifies the location of the DLL import library file (``.lib`` or + ``.dll.a``) on disk, and the ``IMPORTED_LOCATION`` is the location of + the ``.dll`` runtime library (and is optional). Additional usage requirements may be specified in ``INTERFACE_*`` properties. An ``UNKNOWN`` library type is typically only used in the implementation of |