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--></style></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello guys,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So I downloaded the 3.9 release and thought my LTO nightmares were over but… cmake still isn’t using </p><p class=MsoNormal>CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_AR when linking on MSYS.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m using the « MSYS Makefiles » generator, and when building an executable it still uses the plain ar instead of gcc-ar…</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_AR is correctly set to C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/gcc-ar.exe but won’t use it…</p><p class=MsoNormal>I also tried to set CMAKE_AR to C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/gcc-ar.exe from cmake-gui but it’s not taken into account</p><p class=MsoNormal>Here’s the output :</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>[100%] Linking CXX executable BoilerPlate.exe</p><p class=MsoNormal>"/C/Program Files/CMake/bin/cmake.exe" -E remove -f CMakeFiles/BoilerPlate.dir/objects.a</p><p class=MsoNormal>/C/msys64/mingw64/bin/ar.exe cr CMakeFiles/BoilerPlate.dir/objects.a @CMakeFiles/BoilerPlate.dir/objects1.rsp</p><p class=MsoNormal>C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\ar.exe: CMakeFiles/BoilerPlate.dir/source/main.cpp.obj: plugin needed to handle lto object</p><p class=MsoNormal>/C/msys64/mingw64/bin/g++.exe -flto -fno-fat-lto-objects -Wl,--whole-archive CMakeFiles/BoilerPlate.dir/objects.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive -o BoilerPlate.exe -Wl,--out-implib,libBoilerPlate.dll.a -Wl,--major-image-version,0,--minor-image-version,0 @CMakeFiles/BoilerPlate.dir/linklibs.rsp</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m not sure if it is a Windows/MSYS related problem (I think it is), but I really don’t understand why CMAKE wants to use C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/ar.exe so much and not the one in CMAKE_AR / CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_AR…</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you guys have any idea.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,</p><p class=MsoNormal>Lectem</p></div></body></html>