Hello
My library (odbc++) has a public dependency on ODBC32.dll,
I can successfully use:
find_library(ODBC_LIBRARY_PATH "ODBC32")
target_link_libraries(odbc++ PUBLIC "${ODBC_LIBRARY_PATH}")
and cmake would find the associated .lib file from the Windows SDK, and link with it.
But when I install and export odbc++, the config file emitted is very bad:
set_target_properties(odbc++ PROPERTIES
INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES "${_IMPORT_PREFIX}/include"
INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES "C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/10/Lib/10.0.22000.0/um/x64/odbc32.lib")
This is a hard-coded dependency on my local version of Windows SDK !
Why does CMake hard-code any library path at all in the export file ?
Is there a way to mark the library as a “SYSTEM” library, and instruct cmake to maybe use find_library() in the export file ?
I guess the more general question is how to export a library with “floating” dependencies, so the consuming project would try to locate them (with find_package() for example) ?
Sorry I feel I don’t know how to express this any better, I am sure such a scenario appeared many times before
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Thank you
Timothy Madden