Hi David,
Thanks very much for your reply! That was extremely helpful, and will let
several packages document a functional workflow for the future.
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:38 AM, David Cole <dlrd...@aol.com> wrote:
> Unless it is overridden somewhere else along the way, the following is
> used to create the link command line for a C++ executable:
>
> (found in Modules/CMakeCXXInformation.cmake)
>
> if(NOT CMAKE_CXX_LINK_EXECUTABLE)
> set(CMAKE_CXX_LINK_EXECUTABLE
> "<CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER> <FLAGS> <CMAKE_CXX_LINK_FLAGS>
> <LINK_FLAGS> <OBJECTS> -o <TARGET> <LINK_LIBRARIES>")
> endif()
>
> As you can see, by default, the C++ compiler is used as a front end to
> link C++ executables...
>
> Similarly for other types of targets, there are
> CMAKE_CXX_CREATE_SHARED_LIBRARY and CMAKE_CXX_CREATE_SHARED_MODULE. And
> for other languages, there are CMAKE_${LANG}_CREATE_... variables too.
>
Ah, that explains one source of confusion. I read CMAKE_CXX_LINK_EXECUTABLE
with LINK as an adjective - specify the executable that does linking -
whereas the above use of CREATE makes clear that the sense of LINK is
intended to be as a verb - specify how to create an executable. The docs
did say that this variable specifies a rule, now that I know what to look
for. :-(
In order to use the linker you want, you would have to define a custom
> CMAKE_CXX_LINK_EXECUTABLE that uses "<CMAKE_LINKER>" in its definition
> of the linker command line.
>
Right. It's easy to assume that this would be the default behaviour for
constructing linking command lines. It's probably too late to consider a
change, but I hope the original reasoning works well somewhere! :-)
Mark
> HTH,
> David C.
>
>
>
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