[CMake] Combined Static Libraries

[Daniel J. Hilferty]

    Currently, we support Windows, Linux and OS X.   We are hoping that 
CMake would allow us to support MinGW as well.   For Windows builds - 
because these libraries are not standard, we do actually include the 
code for zlib, IJG (jpeg) and png with the distribution.   For Unix 
builds, we prefer to use the libraries already available on the user's 
system to prevent conflicts between library versions.
    The libraries are all static.  I would like to faithfully re-create 
our current build process with CMake first -- but we have considered 
distributing a shared library.  Would using shared libraries solve this 
problem?

Dan

William A. Hoffman wrote:
> At 01:28 AM 8/6/2006, Daniel J. Hilferty wrote:
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>> William A. Hoffman wrote:
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>>> At 07:31 PM 8/5/2006, Daniel J. Hilferty wrote:
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>>>> 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?     
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>>> 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
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>> That is exactly what I am looking for.
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> So, a few questions.  Does your one big library have to be static or shared, or can it be both?
> What platforms do you support?   One think you could do is grab the source for zlib, IJG and png
> and put them into the build for your project.  VTK has cmake'ed versions of zlib and png.
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> -Bill
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