Thanks for your answer. Lets suppose I do not want to stick to my previous libtool versioning but instead version my library according to cmake best practices. How should I set VERSION and SOVERSION given my API version is 3.5 and my old ABI version 4:7:0. By browsing a few CMakeLists.txt on GitHub of other projects it seems to me that most of these projects set VERSION to the project/API version (e.g. 3.5) and the SOVERSION to the project/API major version (e.g 3).
-Kim On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Brad King <brad.k...@kitware.com> wrote: > On 12/15/2016 11:54 AM, Kim Walisch wrote: >> I am currently in the process of switching the build system of my >> primecount project from Autotools to CMake and the shared library >> versioning in CMake is not yet clear to myself. My current project >> version (API version) is 3.5 and the libtool version (ABI version) is >> 4:7:0. So I have set the VERSION and SOVERSION to my libtool >> version (in CMakeLists.txt): >> >> set_target_properties(libprimecount PROPERTIES SOVERSION 4) >> set_target_properties(libprimecount PROPERTIES VERSION "4.7.0") >> >> Is this correct? Or should I set the VERSION to my current project >> version (API version): >> >> set_target_properties(libprimecount PROPERTIES SOVERSION 4) >> set_target_properties(libprimecount PROPERTIES VERSION "3.5") > > The CMake properties give direct control over the way the files > are constructed: > > libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.$soversion > libfoo.so.$soversion -> libfoo.so.$version > libfoo.so.$version (actual file) > > Libtool instead defines version components [1] "current", "revision", > and "age", and somehow maps them to the version and soversion above. > I don't recall the mapping off the top of my head, but if you want to > reproduce what you were doing before you should do that mapping to > select the values for the CMake SOVERSION and VERSION properties. > > -Brad > > [1] > https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Libtool-versioning.html > -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
