Cmake linking to mysql & curl, LNK2019 - mysql

Question

Ok so I just started playing around with CMake. I'm trying to build a project which has dependencies on both MySQL and CURL. This is the directory structure:
./
./src
./cmake
CMakeLists.txt
It's really that simple, src only contains 9 Cpp files and a CMakeLists.txt.
When running CMake, everything works fine. I just get a bunch of linker errors due to MySQL and CURL not being effectively linked. What am I doing wrong ?
Root CMakeLists.txt:
PROJECT(IRCBot)
INCLUDE(CPack)
SET(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake)
INCLUDE(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/FindCURL.cmake)
CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 2.6 FATAL_ERROR)
FIND_PACKAGE(CURL)
IF(CURL_FOUND)
MESSAGE(STATUS "Curl libraries found at: ${CURL_LIBRARIES}")
MESSAGE(STATUS "Curl includes found at: ${CURL_INCLUDE_DIRS}")
else()
MESSAGE(SEND_ERROR "Could not find cURL on your system")
ENDIF(CURL_FOUND)
FIND_PACKAGE(MySQL)
IF(MYSQL_FOUND)
MESSAGE(STATUS "MySQL found at: ${MYSQL_INCLUDE_DIR}, ${MYSQL_LIBRARIES}")
ELSE(MYSQL_FOUND)
MESSAGE(SEND_ERROR "Couldn't find MySQL include files and/or library")
ENDIF(MYSQL_FOUND)
ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(src)
And ./src/CMakeLists.txt
FILE(GLOB_RECURSE IRCBot_files *.cpp *.h)
SET(IRCBot_src
${IRCBot_files}
)
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(
${CURL_INCLUDE_DIRS}
${MYSQL_INCLUDE_DIR}
)
LINK_DIRECTORIES(
${MYSQL_LIBRARIES}
${CURL_LIBRARIES}
)
ADD_EXECUTABLE(IRCBot ${IRCBot_src})
INSTALL(TARGETS IRCBot DESTINATION ${INSTALL_DIR}/bin)

Answer 1

You don't need LINK_DIRECTORIES() call in this case, since it tells compiler where to find libs.
Instead, use
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(IRCBot
${MYSQL_LIBRARIES}
${CURL_LIBRARIES})
because ${MYSQL_LIBRARIES} contains absolute paths.