[CMake] Combined Static Libraries

Daniel J. Hilferty daniel at hilferty.org
Sun Aug 6 01:28:41 EDT 2006


William A. Hoffman wrote:
> At 07:31 PM 8/5/2006, Daniel J. Hilferty wrote:
>   
>> After reading the FAQ, I found that what I actually wanted to create is a convenience library -- which is not yet supported by CMake.  The FAQ led me to believe that there is no future plans to support this feature.  Has anyone hear differently? 
>>     
> What you want is not quite the same as convenience libraries.   For convenience libraries,
> you need to have the sources of all libraries, it is just that you build them into temporary
> libraries that later get combined into one big library.  In CMake, you can just list all the
> source files and put them into one library, so there really is not a need for convenience libraries.
> It sounds like you have existing compiled static libraries that you want to combine with
> source built into one big library.  Is that what you want to do?
>
> -Bill
>
>
>   
That is exactly what I am looking for.

Dan


More information about the CMake mailing list