I have investigated further into this and still have no solution, but a hint, which anyone may be able to confirm.
It appears like I was led astray by a number of bugs in target_link_libraries() which I was mistaking for intentional behavior and so I started to re-create the behavior manually. Which was wrong in the first place. So it boils down to the following: I create an imported lib add_library(my::imp SHARED IMPORTED GLOBAL) and import libraries and dlls like so (for all 3 configurations): set_property(TARGET my::imp APPEND PROPERTY IMPORTED_LOCATION_DEBUG some_debug.dll) set_property(TARGET my::imp APPEND PROPERTY INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES_DEBUG some_debug.lib) and then link my own target to the imported: target_link_libraries(mylib PUBLIC myimp) When I do this without any .lib files being present in there, it will add an (implicit ?) link dependency to "my::imp-NOTFOUND.obj" - rather than nothing at all - which will choke the linker. I have tried all possible combinations of properties, not using the config specifics, using the INTERFACE_ prefixed rather than IMPORTED_ prefixed but that doesn't seem to make much difference. I have however reason to believe that it does work with at least one lib present. Unfortunately with boost far down as base dependency I cannot set libs unless risk of interference with boost's autolink feature. Turning it off and linking myself yielded a different error. It then adds something causing the linker to not find ".obj". This is however invisible in the MSVCs properties dialog. So I rather go with autolink on, as this at least gives me a visible faulty entry. Maybe this sheds some light on this. Still hope someone has a hint where I could look for ways of removing the faulty obj entry. Thanks, Stephan
-- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake
