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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2020-08-04 13:26:01 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2020-08-04 13:29:42 (GMT) |
| commit | 1f1feb72f8b275208a1bb75b728d092d7943229e (patch) | |
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| parent | 5becf28f9230eb70e4181b4aa669297781e7f6b1 (diff) | |
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Help: Document in add_library that IMPORTED_IMPLIB is for DLL import libs
Fixes: #21053
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| -rw-r--r-- | Help/command/add_library.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
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 |