Need help with building SDL using CMake and Visual Studio 2019

SDL Development
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Hello.
I have been trying to use SDL with CMake.
I am using VS2019 as my compiler.
I am trying to link SDL statically to my application, however the build always fails with linker errors.

Errors when compiling debug:
MSVCRTD.lib(init.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _CrtDbgReport referenced in function _CRT_RTC_INIT MSVCRTD.lib(init.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _CrtDbgReportW referenced in function _CRT_RTC_INITW MSVCRTD.lib(error.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol strcpy_s referenced in function "void __cdecl _RTC_StackFailure(void *,char const *)" (?_RTC_StackFailure@@YAXPEAXPEBD@Z) MSVCRTD.lib(error.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol strcat_s referenced in function "void __cdecl _RTC_StackFailure(void *,char const *)" (?_RTC_StackFailure@@YAXPEAXPEBD@Z) MSVCRTD.lib(error.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __stdio_common_vsprintf_s referenced in function _vsprintf_s_l MSVCRTD.lib(error.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __C_specific_handler_noexcept MSVCRTD.lib(pdblkup.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _wmakepath_s referenced in function "int __cdecl GetPdbDllPathFromFilePath(wchar_t const *,wchar_t *,unsigned __int64)" (?GetPdbDllPathFromFilePath@@YAHPEB_WPEA_W_K@Z) MSVCRTD.lib(pdblkup.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _wsplitpath_s referenced in function "int __cdecl GetPdbDllPathFromFilePath(wchar_t const *,wchar_t *,unsigned __int64)" (?GetPdbDllPathFromFilePath@@YAHPEB_WPEA_W_K@Z) MSVCRTD.lib(pdblkup.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol wcscpy_s referenced in function "int __cdecl GetPdbDllPathFromFilePath(wchar_t const *,wchar_t *,unsigned __int64)" (?GetPdbDllPathFromFilePath@@YAHPEB_WPEA_W_K@Z) MSVCRTD.lib(pdblkup.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __vcrt_GetModuleFileNameW referenced in function "struct HINSTANCE__ * __cdecl GetPdbDll(void)" (?GetPdbDll@@YAPEAUHINSTANCE__@@XZ) MSVCRTD.lib(pdblkup.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __vcrt_GetModuleHandleW referenced in function "struct HINSTANCE__ * __cdecl GetPdbDll(void)" (?GetPdbDll@@YAPEAUHINSTANCE__@@XZ) MSVCRTD.lib(pdblkup.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __vcrt_LoadLibraryExW referenced in function "struct HINSTANCE__ * __cdecl GetPdbDll(void)" (?GetPdbDll@@YAPEAUHINSTANCE__@@XZ)

Errors when compiling release:
SDL2.lib(SDL_string.c.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol memset referenced in function SDL_vsnprintf_REAL

(sorry for bad formatting, discourse thinks the @ symbols in the error message are user mentions and won’t let me seperate out the lines for some reason)

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After doing a bit more research, this error appears to have something to do with the “Universal CRT” thing that Visual Studio uses. This is even more confusing as, on the SDL wiki, it specifically says:

On Windows, SDL does not depend on a C runtime at all, not even for malloc(). This means it’s possible to build SDL with almost any Windows compiler and have it work with a program built with any other. Furthermore, it means that SDLmain (the small static .lib file that optionally provides WinMain()) does not force you to deal with Debug vs Release builds in your app, since it doesn’t need either a Debug or Release C runtime. One .lib should work everywhere.

So does anyone know why this error happens?