Re: Why does the default cpath not have lib?.so in it?

[Sebastien Lai <237482@...>]

You can remove the 'lib' prefix this way:

      SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${yourlib} PROPERTIES PREFIX "")

The empty string disables the 'lib' prefix. So you'd get 'foo.so'
instead of 'libfoo.so'.

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Alex Ames <alexander.ames+lua@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  For me, "cc -shared test.c" creates a library called a.out and "cc -shared test.c -o test.so" makes a library called test.so, not libtest.so.
>
> Hm, it appears you're correct. I must have been confusing myself. I
> could have sworn that the default behavior was to make libtest.so, not
> test.so.
>
> This must have to do with CMake then. In CMake I only specify that I
> want to build target foo. CMake must be prepending "lib" on its own.
>
> I'll have to figure out how to tell it to cut it out, but that's a
> question for another mailing list.
>
> (Apologies if this email got sent more than once, I thought I sent it
> last night but it looks like it might not have gotten through)
>
> Thanks
>
> Alex
>
>