What I want to accomplish is to link libraries of the same name but from different paths.

Currently I’m helping myself with

link_directories(${FOREIGN_DIR}/arch/win32/apil/access/x64/${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE})

and later link the foreign_lib.lib so:

target_link_libraries(${LIB_NAME} ${CMAKE_JS_LIB} foreign_lib ${EXTRA_LIB})

foreign_lib.lib obviously exists in a debug and release variant in a properly named subdirectory as you can see above, but both have the same name and I can’t influence this.

Also I have to set the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE myself further up the script as it is empty (the docs for that variable are as usual worthless) which is just a placeholder and also ugly/bad practice as I understand.

What I don’t understand:

The CMake-tools in VisualStudio Code offer me the well-known options Debug, Release, MinSizeRel, RelWithDebInfo but I fail to understand how this can be correctly employed in the config step.

How does one go about linking in such a scenario correctly?

PS: integrating further variation by factoring in architecture (x64, Win32…) and target system (linux,x64, …) would be a plus but my main concern is the above problem RN.