Hi. I recently brought this up at cmake[0] and bill encouraged me to forward some parts here.
I'd like if CMake was more abstract and frees me from fiddling around with compiler/platform specific stuff in many cases. One (and which I consider very basic) for which this is missing is the selection whether single libraries (including the basic ones, libc, libstd++, the loader) are linked statically or dynamically. This should be selectable per lib. Reasons are found in the thread at [0]. A syntactical way to do (at least for the non base libs) this was perhaps something like: target_link_library(target <[STATIC|DYNAMIC] lib+>* ) If STATIC DYNAMIC is omitted, the compiler default (typically dynamical) or another global CMake default is used. * = 0 to many + = 1 to many <> logical brackets [] = optional | = OR I spend some more thought on CMake and what I like and dislike[1]. In case you're interested have a look[2]. Cheers, Chris. [0] http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2012-April/049773.html [1] Actually the list of the dislikes is much bigger, but don't take this personally... it's just useless to largely write about the many things that are already perfect :) ). [2] https://plus.google.com/102329811815220905914/posts/TQsy1WQroJ9
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