[BUG]: Compiling in windows after installing with vcpkg

[dvirneuman]

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Problem description

after installing version 2.9.2 with vcpkg, I can not compile with cmake.
platform: windows.

the error is:

CMake Error at C:/ext_libs/vcpkg/installed/x64-windows/share/pybind11/pybind11Tools.cmake:132 (set_property):
Property INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES may not contain link-type keyword
"debug". The INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES property may contain
configuration-sensitive generator-expressions which may be used to specify
per-configuration rules.

Reproducible example code

cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.8)
set(CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE "C:/ext_libs/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake")
project ("MyProject")
find_package(pybind11 CONFIG REQUIRED)

[wention]

same problem

[esride-jts]

Ran into the same issue, too. Trying to downgrade from version 2.9.2...

[wsolichin-sees]

I found the issue with pybind11 and vcpkg in Windows, it's the same issue mentioned here: https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/21637. As vcpkg installs Python libraries in both debug and optimized, we can't use the INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES, and instead should use target_link_libraries. Should I create a pull request for this fix?

[henryiii]

Thanks, that's helpful. That was only added in CMake 3.11, so it will need to be conditional. MSVC users should be using a recent CMake, so I think it's fine.

[henryiii]

Can someone verify that #3948 does in fact fix this?

[jeanga]

I have just tested the latest from the main branch (containing the referenced commit).
What I get (with MSBuild generator):

[build] LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'optimized.lib' 

Indeed, the generated vcxproj contains an "optimized.lib" reference (and also a "debug.lib" one):

 <AdditionalDependencies>MyLib.lib;optimized.lib;..\..\vcpkg_installed\x64-windows-static\lib\python310.lib;debug.lib;..\..\vcpkg_installed\x64-windows-static\lib\manual-link\python.lib;other libs looking better....</AdditionalDependencies>

[Chaojimengnan]

Hi, I have the same problem, any solution?