Author Topic: CMake & MSVC & SFML 2 Static Issue (Read 3328 times)

coolhome · « **on:** January 31, 2012, 08:25:08 am »

Hello everyone!

I just noticed that I cannot compile SFML 2.0 (latest git version) as a static library. I unchecked BUILD_SHARED_LIBS and it compiles the dll's. I have tried this multiple times. Can anyone else confirm this behavior?

I'm digging into the CMake files to see if I can find the problem.

Laurent · « **Reply #1 on:** January 31, 2012, 08:34:43 am »

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Can anyone else confirm this behavior?

Nop. Static build have always worked so far. It is controlled by CMake so you'll hardly find something in SFML's makefiles.

Maybe you're compiling a different build than the one you configured as static? Or maybe the DLLs were not removed after you changed to static?

coolhome · « **Reply #2 on:** January 31, 2012, 08:43:50 am »

Okay so I got it to work. I was using the 7417870 commit. So I just updated to 84d75ed and it worked perfectly. No idea why that would of made them DLL's. I just deleted the 7417870 folder and extracted and tried it again.. same thing. Oh well it works now so we are good

Tank · « **Reply #3 on:** February 07, 2012, 08:53:16 am »

I've got an issue, too. When building statically with nmake/VS2010, the output filenames don't have a "-s" appended. Result is that other CMake-powered projects using FindSFML.cmake can't find the libraries when SFML_STATIC_LIBRARIES is set, becase it looks for -s except for sfml-main.lib.

I also made sure to remove all SFML_* CMake vars except the SFML_STATIC_LIBRARIES so the libs are really searched for again.

Git commit ID: e7256e3324a196bb1432786c678f195c9ffb982b
OS: Win7
CC: MSVC 2010 (nmake)

Laurent · « **Reply #4 on:** February 07, 2012, 09:48:13 am »

Strange, the code is quite straight-forward I don't see how it could be broken.

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if(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
    ...
else()
    set_target_properties(${target} PROPERTIES DEBUG_POSTFIX -s-d)
    set_target_properties(${target} PROPERTIES RELEASE_POSTFIX -s)
endif()

And it has always worked so far.

Unfortunately I can't test on VC++ 2010.

Tank · « **Reply #5 on:** February 07, 2012, 10:17:59 am »

Got it: Add MINSIZEREL_POSTFIX.

I'm usually building with "MinSizeRel" as the build type to get smaller libraries, however RELEASE_POSTFIX only applies to "Release".

Laurent · « **Reply #6 on:** February 08, 2012, 07:31:27 pm »

Thanks!

It's fixed.

Tank · « **Reply #7 on:** February 08, 2012, 08:42:46 pm »

Great, thank you.