cmake cannot find libws2_32

nekkceb

I am using Qt 5.15.10 MinGW-32 in windows 10 and the mingw compiler that installs with Qt:
Path to compiler is

C:\Pgms\QtOL\Tools\mingw810_32\bin

I converted this project form .pro to cmake. The .pro relevant line is:

win32:LIBS += libws2_32

And that has been working fine for several years.
I've been using the python routine so do the initial conversion from qmake to cmake:

qmake2cmake ./BIPSFileMgr.pro --min-qt-version 5.15

The corresponding lines in the CMakeLists.txt file are:

if(WIN32)
    target_link_libraries(BIPSFileMgr PRIVATE
            libws2_32
        )
    endif()

But after running cmake I get

cannot find -llibws2_32

I have tried adding explicit path to the libws2_32.a (not .lib as I would expect...)

    target_link_libraries(BIPSFileMgr PRIVATE
        C:/Pgms/QtOL/Tools/mingw810_32/i686-w64-mingw32/lib/libws2_32.a
        # ws2_32
    )

But that gives the same error.
Can someone point me in a better direction here?

Christian Ehrlicher

libws2_32

The library is 'ws2_32', not 'libws2_32'

nekkceb

Well I feel a bit silly, but I thought I had tried that. Seems to work now though.