On 2010-12-13 18:13-0500 Clifford Yapp wrote:
Can anyone tell me what the best way is (without a whole lot of rebuilding) to take several individual libraries and combine them into a single large library?
It appears someone has already pointed you to the (lack of) convenience library reference for CMake. But beyond that I would advise you think very carefully about your purpose. Do you want to build individual libraries or a giant library? There should be no need for both. If individual, then there should be no need for the giant one since any application that previously linked to the giant library could be linked instead to the subset of individual libraries needed by that application. If your individual libraries have been factored on some rational basis, then why would you want to lump those nicely factored results together into a giant library? On the other hand, if there is no logical rhyme nor reason to the way your code has been factored into individual libraries (i.e., they really are meant to be just grab-bag component parts to the giant library), then don't bother building the individual libraries at all. Instead, in each individual subdirectory where source code exists that would normally be used to build the individual libraries, you can append a list of full pathnames for the source code to a global property. At the end of processing all subdirectories, the result will be a global property containing a list of the full pathnames of all source files that you can use to build the giant library. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake