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[Dominik Szczerba <>]

>> > Is that an error of the linker, or is that an error of the makefiles
>> > produced by CMake (and the error would be an error given my make or
>> > nmake).
>
> Actually, it was a question. Is that an error of the linker, or is that an
> error of the makefiles produced by CMake (and the error would be an error
> given my make or nmake)?


This is the error reported during linking by Visual Studio:

Error   411     error LNK1104: cannot open file 'CGAL-vc100-mt.lib'

However, this name DOES NOT appear in the project dependencies
(project->properties), so it must be generated dynamically. I want to
link to CGAL-vc100-mt-g.lib, this one is in the dependencies, but is
ignored. This should not happen, because CGAL_NO_AUTOLINK is defined.
CGAL_LIB_DIAGNOSTIC is also defined, but "Linking to lib file:
CGAL_LIB_FULL_NAME" does not seem to be displayed, which means that it
is not auto_link.h that is causing this. Very weird.

>
>> > /D CGAL_NO_AUTOLINK should disable the autolinking of all CGAL libraries.
>>
>> I do this and still get my own libraries ignored for the non-existent
>> ones. I understand that RelWithDebInfo is not supported but still, I
>> should be able to link against any library I want at own risk with
>> autolinking disabled, no?
>
> If my hypothesis is right, the error you have is created by CMake. Open and
> edit the content of CGALConfig.cmake that is in the lib/ directory when you
> have CGAL-vc100*.lib.

I have looked inside the file and can not find any traces of a
variable hardcoding CGAL-vc100-mt.lib name.

Regards,
Dominik