CMake链接库未显示在VisualStudio生成的项目中

Question

I am generating a VisualStudio project for Windows with cmake and the provided linking functions don't appear to work on the generated VisualStudio project.

The generated project is a library and it relies on another library as a dependency.

Generation of the project works fine but nothing appears under "Additional Dependencies" entry whatever i try.

I tried using both "link_libraries" and "target_link_libraries", both before and after stating "add_library( MyLib )" I tried this for instance:

project( MyLib )
...
add_library( MyLib ${source_list} )
...
target_link_libraries ( MyLib ${SOME_LIB_PATH} )
target_link_libraries ( MyLib "${SOME_LIB_PATH}" )
target_link_libraries ( MyLib W:/work/Project/MyLib/ )
target_link_libraries ( MyLib "W:/work/Project/MyLib/" )
target_link_libraries ( MyLib W:/work/Project/MyLib/MyLib.lib )
target_link_libraries ( MyLib "W:/work/Project/MyLib/MyLib.lib" )
target_link_libraries ( MyLib banane )
target_link_libraries ( MyLib whatever )
target_link_libraries ( MyLib "test" )
...
include_directories(
    "Include/"
    ${SOME_LIB_INCLUDE_PATH}
)

Include directories appear correctly in the project properties though. So is that a bug or am i missing something :) ?

Answer 1

Scheff pointed me in the right direction by recalling that a static library is not actually linked against other potential static libraries.

Even though VisualStudio allow to specify a static library dependancy in its UI, it is actually not happening and CMake shows this by actually not adding it in the generated project; that was the confusing part.

A static library can compile fine without being explicitely link to another static library dependancy, even if it uses code from it, as long as the final executable links with the said library AND its library dependancies, if i am not mistaken.

So thank you @Scheff for his comment !