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  • Hash : a3a35473
    Author : Patrick Steinhardt
    Date : 2017-08-17T08:38:47

    cmake: fix output location of import libraries and DLLs
    
    As observed by Edward Thomson, the libgit2 DLL built by Windows will not
    end up in the top-level build directory but instead inside of the 'src/'
    subdirectory. While confusing at first because we are actually setting
    the LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY to the project's binary directory, the
    manual page of LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY clears this up:
    
        There are three kinds of target files that may be built: archive,
        library, and runtime. Executables are always treated as runtime
        targets. Static libraries are always treated as archive targets.
        Module libraries are always treated as library targets. For non-DLL
        platforms shared libraries are treated as library targets. For DLL
        platforms the DLL part of a shared library is treated as a runtime
        target and the corresponding import library is treated as an archive
        target. All Windows-based systems including Cygwin are DLL
        platforms.
    
    So in fact, DLLs and import libraries are not treated as libraries at
    all by CMake but instead as runtime and archive targets. To fix the
    issue, we can thus simply set the variables RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY and
    ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY to the project's root binary directory.