Using CMake 3.23, I am trying to get the names of the files that add_library() generates for a target in Windows.

add_library(talib source.cpp source.h)

It generates the following files:

talib.dll
talib.lib
talib.pdb

Is there any way to get the names of the above files? $<TARGET_FILE:talib> only gives me talib.dll, how can I get the rest of the filenames, and will it work for Linux libraries? Thanks in advance.

CodePudding user response：

There are the following generator expressions. This is mostly quoting the documentation here:

https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.html

• $<TARGET_FILE:tgt> -- Full path to the tgt binary file. For shared libraries, this is the dynamic object file on all platforms.
• $<TARGET_LINKER_FILE:tgt> -- File used when linking to the tgt target. This will usually be the same as $<TARGET_FILE:tgt>, but for a shared library on DLL platforms, it would be the .lib import library associated with the DLL.
• $<TARGET_PDB_FILE:tgt> -- Full path to the linker generated program database file (.pdb) where tgt is the name of a target.

All of these resolve to absolute paths. The first two work on all systems (but might duplicate each other). The last one only works on PDB systems and will throw a fatal error that reads TARGET_PDB_FILE is not supported by the target linker. on other systems.

To detect whether you are on a PDB system, you can check the variable CMAKE_<LANG>_LINKER_SUPPORTS_PDB, where <LANG> is C, CXX, etc.