Hey there.
I'm trying to make a plugin system for my application, and thus each plugin
will need to link with my main application. This is fine on Linux and macOS, as
I can just set the ENABLE_EXPORTS property of my executable target
(set_target_properties(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES ENABLE_EXPORTS 1), and
plugins will link just fine. On Windows however, clang++ yells at me that it
can't find libws2editor.dll.a.
clang++.exe: error: no such file or directory: 'ws2editor/libws2editor.dll.a'
Upon looking over the CMake docs, it says "For DLL platforms an import library
will be created for the exported symbols and then used for linking." - This
import library file (presumably the .dll.a) never seems to be created though.
After a bit more digging around I came across
<https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/blob/master/Tests/Plugin/CMakeLists.txt>
https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/blob/master/Tests/Plugin/CMakeLists.txt - When
I clone the CMake repo and try and compile that test myself, it also fails with
the same error when using clang + ninja! When building with MSVC/msbuild
however it compiles just fine (My project fails to configure when generating
files for MSVC however, and ideally I'd like to use the same build config
across Win/Mac/Linux).
So how can I get the CMake build on Windows to create this file, or otherwise
link with an executable?
Thanks.
If you want the full CMake scripts, they're available on GitHub.
The main executable:
<https://github.com/CraftedCart/smblevelworkshop2/blob/master/ws2editor/CMakeLists.txt>
https://github.com/CraftedCart/smblevelworkshop2/blob/e85c2a0f6f9eb9a00f22b94aa79426b0874ca8e1/ws2editor/CMakeLists.txt
The plugin:
https://github.com/CraftedCart/smblevelworkshop2/blob/e85c2a0f6f9eb9a00f22b94aa79426b0874ca8e1/ws2editorplugins/ws2editorexampleplugin/CMakeLists.txt
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