Cannot link DEBUG OpenSim libraries in CMake (MSVC)

[tgeijten]

For linking OpenSim via CMake, I currently use:

target_link_libraries( sconeopensim4 osimTools )

This automatically sets all dependencies for all OpenSim libraries, as well as the include paths, which is great! However, for DEBUG builds, it links the release builds of the library instead of the _d debug versions. This causes any code to crash, because debug builds are incompatible with release builds. I tried changing it to:

target_link_libraries( sconeopensim4 osimTools_d )

but this won't add the other libraries or set any of the include paths. The only workaround is to manually change the library names inside Visual Studio, but these changes get overwritten every time CMake is run.

Any help on how to improve this is greatly appreciated!

[aymanhab]

Can you try this snippet in your CMake file:
if(WIN32) set(CMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX "_d" CACHE INTERNAL "" FORCE) else(WIN32) set(CMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX "_d" CACHE STRING "Suffix for debug libraries") endif(WIN32)
Generally we almost never specify all the libraries since link time dependencies are typically on one shared library and that pulls all other requirements.

[tgeijten]

I tried it, but this has no effect on the library names.

Important to note is that adding osimTools does automatically select the DEBUG libraries for Simbody (SimTKsimbody_d.lib, etc.). So I suppose the UseOpenSim.cmake already knows how to handle DEBUG mode, it just doesn't work for the OpenSim libraries.