diff options
| -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`. |