Merge topic 'detect-lib_foo.a-msvc'

be848a71b0 MSVC: Teach find_library to consider the 'libfoo.a' naming convention

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <[email protected]>
Merge-request: !7694

Help/release/dev/detect-lib_foo.a-msvc.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+detect-lib_foo.a-msvc
+---------------------
+
+* On Windows, when targeting the MSVC ABI, the :command:`find_library` command
+  now accepts ``.a`` file names after first considering ``.lib``.  This is
+  symmetric with existing behavior when targeting the GNU ABI, in which the
+  command accepts ``.lib`` file names after first considering ``.a``.

Modules/Platform/Windows.cmake

@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ set(CMAKE_LINK_LIBRARY_SUFFIX ".lib")
 set(CMAKE_DL_LIBS "")
 set(CMAKE_EXTRA_LINK_EXTENSIONS ".targets")
 
-set(CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_PREFIXES "")
-set(CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES ".lib")
+set(CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_PREFIXES "" "lib")
+set(CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES ".lib" ".a")
 
 # for borland make long command lines are redirected to a file
 # with the following syntax, see Windows-bcc32.cmake for use