Find_Library_Ex for msvc

[Allen Winter]

On Thursday 27 September 2007 8:38:24 am Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
> Alexander Neundorf schrieb:
> > 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() ?
> > 
> I'm not good in finding usefull names for such macros - I'm fine with
> every name as long as I know what the macro does :)
> 
If this change affects kdelibs only, then do this at your leisure.
If this change affects kdelibs+any other module, then please wait until Monday.