[PROJ] Is there a cmake way to change the library name?

[Carl Godkin]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 5:35 AM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

>
> Le 24/06/2024 à 07:23, Carl Godkin via PROJ a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> We use PROJ 9.3.1 in our software.
>
> I built it with cmake using curl and libtiff for Windows 64.
>
> I also needed to build a minimal version to be used in a plugin to another
> application where I cannot use curl and I've done that successfully.
>
> But both DLLs (i.e., the "regular" one and the "minimal" one) are named
> "proj_9_3.dll"
>
> I would love to change the DLL name of one of them but I don't see a cmake
> variable for doing that.  I am not a cmake expert by any means, so perhaps
> I missed something.
>
> No, you didn't miss anything. This isn't configurable. But you can easily
> change it by modifying the value of the OUTPUT_NAME at line
> https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/blob/4aa16151b98926fbbe6d8504a770379c6733ac35/src/lib_proj.cmake#L417
>
> I suspect you could also probably override it after the fact by calling
> PROJ's CMakeLists.txt from a CMakeLists.txt of yours and doing a
> "set_target_properties(proj PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME "your_name")"
> afterwards, but I'm not totally sure about that.
>
>
> I just used the first approach.  For anyone else coming back to this,
OUTPUT_NAME shouldn't the include ".dll"

> GDAL has actually a CMake cache variable to customize this:
GDAL_LIB_OUTPUT_NAME

And of course this worked as expected.  (Once again, leave off the ".dll"
part.)

Thanks again, Even!

carl
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