cmake:missing and no known rule to make it when I import a prebuilt library

Question

I want to import a prebuilt library using this CmakeLists.txt snippet:

add_library(openssl-crypto
            SHARED
            IMPORTED )
set_target_properties(openssl-crypto
                      PROPERTIES
                      IMPORTED_LOCATION
                      ${external_DIR}/libs/${ANDROID_ABI}/libcrypto.so )
include_directories(${external_DIR}/include/openssl)

I linked this to my library as:

target_link_libraries(aes-crypto openssl-crypto)

Attempting to build returns this error:

'/libs/arm64-v8a/libcrypto.so', needed by ...,  missing and no known rule to make it

Answer 1

I found that the set_target_properties function doesn't like relative paths.

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From the CMake Documentation on IMPORTED_LOCATION

Full path to the main file on disk for an IMPORTED target.

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To resolve this issue, I used the full path to the library instead.

Example:

set_target_properties ( curl-lib 
                        PROPERTIES IMPORTED_LOCATION 
                        libs/${ANDROID_ABI}/libcurl.a )

. . . becomes . . . 

set_target_properties ( curl-lib 
                        PROPERTIES IMPORTED_LOCATION 
                        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/main/cpp/libs/${ANDROID_ABI}/libcurl.a )

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