Debug and Release Library Linking with CMAKE (VISUAL STUDIO)

Question

There was already a Thread which did not help really. I want to be able to link for example Foo.lib for Release Config and Foo_d.l

Answer 1

If you have debug/release libs that follow a certain pattern, like _d on the debug ones, you can avoid repeating yourself with:

set (MY_LIBS
    foo
    bar
    baz
)

# Generate the list of files to link, per flavor.
set (LINK_LIST "")
foreach(x ${MY_LIBS})
    list (APPEND LINK_LIST debug ${x}_d optimized ${x})
endforeach()

target_link_libraries (mytarget
    commonlib1
    commonlib2
    ${LINK_LIST}
    )

This will generate the appropriate

debug foo_d optimized foo
debug bar_d optimized bar

lines that target_link_libraries expects.