[CMake] Merge two static libraries

[Marcel Loose]

On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 13:40 +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Zitat von "Marcel Loose" <loose at astron.nl>:
> > Even if you opt for the "one static library" option, you already
gain in
> > build speed. Suppose you've modified foo.c, then CMake will only
rebuild
> > foo.o. Of course, it will rebuild foo.o twice, once for libconsole,
once
> > for libwindows. But that's already much better than recompiling all
50
> > sources twice.
> 
> Such requests come up regularly. The solution would be easy: something
 
> like VIRTUAL as alternative to the STATIC flags of add_library().  
> Cmake could just omit the link step (it already knows all object  
> files) and linking such a virtual library to a static one just  
> includes the already compiled object files. That would exactly achieve
 
> the requested features (compiling those files only once), is hack-free
 
> and totally straight-forward.
> 
> Just not done...
> 
> HS
> 
Well, maybe it's worth to enter it as an enhancement request in the
issue tracker.

Regards,
Marcel Loose.