Find_Library_Ex for msvc

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Sunday 23 September 2007 07:55, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> msvc needs to distinguish between debug and release libs to avoid
> crashes (it use a different runtime and therefore some symbols/functions
> are incompatible).
> To respect this behaviour, we currently need to add a whole bunch of
> cmake lines to every FindFoo.cmake. For an example see FindBlitz.cmake
>
> To simplify this, I wrote a new macro FIND_LIBRARY_EX() which allows a
> new keyword 'WIN32_DEBUG_POSTFIX' (similar to cmake's DEBUG_POSTFIX).
> Due to cmake script limitations it needs to be the second and third
> argument:
>
> FIND_LIBRARY_EX(BLITZ_LIBRARIES
>    WIN32_DEBUG_POSTFIX d
>    qimageblitz
>    PATHS
>    $ENV{QIMAGEBLITZDIR}/lib
>    ${KDE4_LIB_DIR}
>    ${LIB_INSTALL_DIR}
> )
>
> -> on win32, qimageblitz (release lib) and qimageblitzd (debug lib) is
> searched and added to BLITZ_LIBRARIES
> -> it does not change anything on non-win32 platforms
>
> I would like to check in this change tomorrow. Later I want to change
> all kde libraries to have a debug postfix on win32 and use this macro
> for those libs too.
>
> Any objections?


Can we come up with a better name than just appending "_EX" ?
Maybe FIND_LIBRARY_WITH_DEBUG() ?

Alex