Ah, I'm informed that what I was after was this: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ#Does_CMake_support_.22convenience.22_libraries.3F
and I won't be able to duplicate this result with CMake (at least, using that mechanism.) CY On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Clifford Yapp <[email protected]> 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? > > In our autotools Makefile.am, we have the following: > > libbrlcad_la_SOURCES = > libbrlcad_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 19:1 > libbrlcad_la_LIBADD = libbrlcad_nil.la > > libbrlcad_nil_la_SOURCES = > libbrlcad_nil_la_LIBADD = \ > $(top_builddir)/src/libbu/libbu_nil.la \ > $(top_builddir)/src/libbn/libbn_nil.la \ > $(top_builddir)/src/librt/librt_nil.la \ > $(top_builddir)/src/libwdb/libwdb_nil.la \ > $(top_builddir)/src/libged/libged_nil.la > > If I'm not mistaken, this appears to build static and dynamic > libbrlcad.a/libbrlcad.dylib/libbrlcad.so/etc. libraries using the > already built libbu, libbn, etc. libraries, without recompiling > anything. > > I have successfully built all of the component libraries using CMake > both STATIC and SHARED, but I am a bit puzzled as to how to combine > them all into the monster library. I can't define an add_library > target without source files - is there some other way to approach > this? The arguments against reusing object files don't come into it > here, since the whole point is to combine what was already built into > a single large library. > > Sorry if the question is basic but I may not even be using the right > terminology to search for what I want to do here. Thanks for any > help. > > CY > _______________________________________________ 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
