I'm writing a Find<library>.cmake
module, because no good one exists for the library in question. This necessitates usage of the find_path
and find_library
commands. I'm testing it on macOS El Capitan.
Through means that are not relevant to this question, I determine that on macOS, this library is installed in /usr/local/opt/<brew formula name>
, which is in fact a symlink to somewhere else (the exact location isn't relevant). Let's call this path MYLIB_BREW_ROOT
.
The headers and dylib's for this formula are available in ${MYLIB_BREW_ROOT}/include
and ${MYLIB_BREW_ROOT}/lib
, respectively. I add these paths, as written here, to the relevant find
command search paths. So why isn't CMake finding them? Does CMake traverse symlinks? If so, how do I enable it? If not, how do I work around it?