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[Eric Berberich <>]

On 8/2/12 3:05 PM, Anthony Truchet wrote:
> Le 02/08/2012 13:15, Laurent Rineau (CGAL/GeometryFactory) a écrit :
> > Le jeudi 02 août 2012 11:36:37 anthony a écrit :
> > > I suspect so-called auto-link feature is implied because it does no make
> > > sense (at least to me for now) to freeze in the
> > > lib/CGAL/CGALConfig.cmake
> > > file the kind of compilation option the clinet project will use...
> > > I'm very willing to contribute a patch but I would need some help
> > > from CGAL
> > > / CMake gurus to do so. Thanks.
> > Indeed on Windows, when MSVC is used, the CGAL*LIBRARY variables are
> > empty, on
> > purpose, because the auto-linking i used.
>
> Thanks for this quick answer. But how come then that those variables are
> used, resulting in so many errors ? Is it on CGAL side on the client
> projet side ? I would have expected that the UseCGAL.cmake would do
> "what is required".

Can you point out the positions where it is used? And the errors?

> By the way could you please point me to where the autolink feature is
> implemented / documented so that I can understand it better and
> hopefully fix those annpying messages ?
>
> --
> Anthony Truchet