Cross-compiler target linking failure

[Kaltxi]

Hello!

Recently I've stumbled upon a problem while using OpenImageIO via vcpkg on windows, while using clang as my compiler. Vcpkg would build the packages using its default toolchain which means MSVC. This would lead to my user targets inheriting /EHsc flag from OpenEXR and Imath and failing to build with clang.

The problem turned out to be in these lines (and same corresponding lines in config/LibraryDefine.cmake for Imath:

openexr/cmake/LibraryDefine.cmake

Lines 12 to 14 in 694606d

	if (MSVC)
	set(_openexr_extra_flags "/EHsc")
	endif()

As pointed out to me in microsoft/vcpkg#38466 using generator expression instead of if fixes the problem. In my local overlay port I simply replaced the if with set(_openexr_extra_flags "$<$<CXX_COMPILER_ID:MSVC>:/EHsc>") which would remove the flag completely for non-msvc compilers (+ the same change for Imath). I'm not sure this is entirely correct in this case and perhaps for other compilers corresponding exception handling flag should be publicly exported instead.

Could you advise on the need for this public compile flag and whether it is possible to fix it upstream?

[meshula]

Using a generator instead of an if makes a lot of sense. If you'd like to submit a PR to this project and Imath, that would be awesome.