can't set(SFML_STATIC_LIBRARIES TRUE) in cmake SFML 2.5.1 on Debian 10

[otherMonkey]

I already asked in Stack Overflow, but there nobody can help me yet.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59555700/setsfml-static-libraries-true-doesnt-work-in-cmake-with-sfml-2-5-1-on-debian


I installed SFML with the command "apt install libsfml-dev".

I can link it in cmake discribed like in this post https://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=24070.0 and everything works pretty fine.

But if I add set(SFML_STATIC_LIBRARIES TRUE) to my cmake file to link sfml static I get the following error:

CMake Error at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/SFML/SFMLConfig.cmake:139 (message):
  Requested SFML configuration (Static) was not found
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:30 (find_package)

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:30 (find_package):
  Found package configuration file:

    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/SFML/SFMLConfig.cmake

  but it set SFML_FOUND to FALSE so package "SFML" is considered to be NOT
  FOUND.

I recognized that the SFMLConfig.cmake (https://github.com/SFML/SFML/blob/master/cmake/SFMLConfig.cmake.in) file wants to access a SFMLStaticTargets.cmake file in line 110, if I set(SFML_STATIC_LIBRARIES TRUE).

But my /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/SFML folder just contains the following files for Shared linking:

    SFMLConfig.cmake
    SFMLConfigDependencies.cmake
    SFMLConfigVersion.cmake
    SFMLSharedTargets.cmake
    SFMLSharedTargets-none.cmake

In sfml version I can download here "https://www.sfml-dev.org/download/sfml/2.5.1/" I can also just find these files in the lib/cmake/SFML folder, but a SFMLSharedTargets-release.cmake file instead of SFMLSharedTargets-none.cmake.

What can I do to static link sfml 2.5.1 in cmake on my system?

[Laurent]

You have to recompile SFML, because pre-built packages for Linux don't contain static libraries.

[otherMonkey]

Thank you for the fast answer! I will try this.

[filip]

How do you do this?

[CDnoMlqko]

How do you do this?

https://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/2.5/compile-with-cmake.php