[CMake] [2.8.12.1] Bug in Xcode generation of STATIC from OBJECT libraries

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Thu Jan 23 10:22:56 EST 2014


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:
>   add_library(mylib STATIC $<TARGET_OBJECTS:mylib_OBJECTS>)
[snip]
> The Makefile generators work fine
>
> For Xcode, though, the link fails:

This is a known limitation.  From the add_library documentation:

 http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.12/cmake.html#command:add_library
 "Some native build systems may not like targets that have only object files,
  so consider adding at least one real source file"

-Brad


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