Hello Pierre,
self reply as a correction, sorry:
what I meant was that only linking the executables
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(EX1 libB libC1)
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(EX2 libB libC2)
should suffice.

Andreas


Am 25.02.2013 um 14:14 schrieb Andreas Stahl:

> Hello Pierre,
> 
> my knowledge concerning the linking process is rather limited, but wouldn't 
> that mean you don't need to inter-link the libraries at all, when the symbols 
> are resolved at link-time with the executable?
> add_executable(ex1 libB libC1 libC2) should suffice then.
> 
> Best regards,
> Andreas
> 
> 
> Am 25.02.2013 um 13:47 schrieb Pierre Mallard:
> 
>> Well it is indeed possible and it works... Note that static libraries 's 
>> object files are built with unresolved symbols. Final resolution is 
>> performed when building executable
>> Therefore libB can compile without libC and conversely ...
>> Anyone else ?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Ansis Māliņš <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> libB depends on libC and libC depends on libB.
>> How is that even possible? You compile B and it fails because there's no C 
>> yet. You compile C and it fails because there's no B yet.
>> 
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