CMAKE : how to link executable to winmm imm32 version on windows with Visual Studio?

Question

Is it possible to find these libraries easily?

I do not want to reinvent the wheel and write uber-long find_library call!

Even more, I just want to put line "winmm.lib etc" into

"Librarian" => "Additional dependencies"
or
"Linker" => "Additional dependencies"

These libraries are good friends of Windows and Visual Studio so they know very well how to find them.

Phenformin

Why would you need to 'find' these libs? Simply add them to your target_link_libraries and it should work. Visual Studio already knows where to find them in its default library-search directories. – Coir

this will not work, target_link_libraries takes only "found" stuff ;) – Phenformin

I hate to say this, but... it works for me. Did you try it? When I make my own small project with a simple CMakeLists.txt and add imm32.lib to the target_link_libraries, it will be added to the AdditionalDependencies section of my .vcxproj file. Together with kernel32.lib; user32.lib; etc – Coir

Answer 1

Solution from Andre works. In my project this line did the trick:

target_link_libraries(${target_name} winmm.lib)

Symptom