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Provide a way to specify the debug library name to use in cc.find_library

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#2,209 opened on Aug 17, 2017

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Description

On Windows, the release library and the debug library are usually called different names; for instance libpcre is called 'pcre.lib/pcre.dll' for release and 'pcred.lib/pcred.lib/ for debug builds. Similarly for boost.

I propose a new kwarg called 'debug_name:' which will peek at buildtype and use the provided name if the buildtype starts with 'debug'.

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Study how cc.find library currently works, then implement a new 'debug name' keyword argument that selects the debug library name when the buildtype starts with 'debug'.
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