[CMake] Linking cmake build library to a shell script

[ankit jain]

2009/3/16 Mattias Helsing <helsing72 at gmail.com>

> Hello Ankit,
>
> I think I know what you are trying to do. Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Your CMake code produces an executable file (you can't run libraries
> from the commandline) and you want to produce a shellscript that calls
> this executable?
>

Thanks for the reply but iam sorry that you misunderstand my question.
My cmake genrates a library. iam not generating a shel script from cmake.
i already written it. only thing is that iam esxecuting this shell script
through cmake like normal executables. what i want is to link this shell
script with the cmake generated library.
thats it. like we link a cmake generated executable to cmake generated
library.
here the diff. is that the shell script is not generatde by cmake.

Hope its clear.iam giving my folder structure to you.

Main
....cmakelist.txt
....shell_script.sh



> Libraries are stored in some other folder outside main folder.
>
ankit


> You could for example create a shell script template and use the
> configure_file command, e.i.
>
> in file shscript.sh.in:
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> @PROJECT_BINARY_DIR@/bin/@TARGET_NAME@ $1 $2 $3
>
> in file CMakeLists.txt
> set(TARGET_NAME <your_executable_target>)
> configure_file(shscript.sh.in ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/bin/shscript.sh)
>
> not at all the prettiest solution and I'm not really sure why you want
> to do this but good luck
> Mattias
>
> On 3/13/09, ankit jain <ankitguddu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/3/13 Mattias Helsing <helsing72 at gmail.com>
> >
> >> Hello Ankit,
> >>
> >> On 3/13/09, ankit jain <ankitguddu at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > I have a shell script. I want to link it with a library that i have
> >> > build
> >> > using cmake. Is it possible to do so.
> >> > I am running this shell script using cmake.
> >>
> >> You need to describe what you want to do in much more detail. What
> >> kind of link are you talking about? The first interpretation I made
> >> was that you are using a linker to link a library and a shell script
> >> into <whatever>. Is it that you
> >> * want to call the linker from the script?
> >> * linking them in the context of packaging so they get installed
> >> together?
> >> * <more wild guesses>
> >>
> >> Perhaps you could take a look at
> >>  http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> >> so that we(I or any real cmake expert) can at least have a chance of
> >> helping you without wild guesses.
> >>
> >> Mattias
> >>
> >
> >
> >>  Iam sorry that i am not able to explain you properly.
> >>
> > Actually in my shl scripts there are certains commadns that i use. these
> > commands are nothing but executbale which require some arguments. these
> > executables are actaully created by cmake. Also certain commands can only
> > be
> > run from some libraries which are build by cmake.
> >
> > I am actually getting errors while running that shell script.
> > Error are like: <command_name> not found.
> > It is because iam not able to link that shell script or say not able to
> > include that library into the shell script. I dotn know how to link a
> > library with shell script so that while executing it gets all the supor
> tof
> > the library which it requires.
> >
> > As you have asked about linker  not explicitly iam passing anything to
> > linker calling linker from shell script.
> >
> > My need is to simple run the shell script which need a support of a
> > library.
> > Toa chieve it how to link thast library to shell script i dont know. It
> > might be like you said calling linker from shell script. i dontknow how
> it
> > can be achieved.
> >
> > You tell me in general sense if this the senario how to do it.
> >
> > I hope i make problem somewhat clear to you.
> >
> > Ankit
> >
> >>
> >> >
> >> > If possible plz let me show an example.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Ankit
> >> >
> >>
> >
>
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