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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2021-09-30 12:50:51 (GMT) |
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| committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2021-09-30 12:51:27 (GMT) |
| commit | 6051e4b7c34a113fe0582dd9a8c2384a74620677 (patch) | |
| tree | efdec0fe0217787501d662696d7fb730c42e408d | |
| parent | ddc8ebcee32d19a86aaa6e67e688ea8f262b6501 (diff) | |
| parent | 9aba0ce29d9e6f1dfc3c17020fac45424d393329 (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'cmake_find_library_suffixes_ext_windows_fixes'
9aba0ce29d Help: Fix CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES examples for Windows
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !6569
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/variable/CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES.rst index 4a64e33..c2c2609 100644 --- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES.rst +++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES.rst @@ -5,5 +5,8 @@ Suffixes to append when looking for libraries. This specifies what suffixes to add to library names when the :command:`find_library` command looks for libraries. On Windows systems this -is typically ``.lib`` and ``.dll``, meaning that when trying to find the -``foo`` library it will look for ``foo.dll`` etc. +is typically ``.lib`` and, depending on the compiler, ``.dll.a``, ``.a`` +(e.g. GCC and Clang), so when it tries to find the ``foo`` library, it will +look for ``[<prefix>]foo.lib`` and/or ``[<prefix>]foo[.dll].a``, depending on +the compiler used and the ``<prefix>`` specified in the +:variable:`CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_PREFIXES`. |