[CMake] cmake doesnt use /usr/bin/ar with c++ projects

[Filipe Sousa]

Philipp Meinen wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I recently used cmake for a project.
> So I added a line like this to my CMakeLists.txt:
> PROJECT(ProjectName CXX)
> 
> Later on, when i tested the build-environment
> i saw error lines like this:
> cd /some/directory &&  cr libFOO.a  "CMakeFiles/FOO.dir/Foo.o"
> 
> Now this is the line of the Makefile where
> the archiver should generate an archive of the object files.
> But there is no binary for the archiver specified, only
> the arguments.
> After playing around for some time I found out, that I need
> to write the Project definition like this:
> PROJECT(ProjectName C CXX)
> or
> PROJECT(ProjectName)
> 
> It seems that there is no archiver binary defined for
> a "plain c++ project".
> I added a small example project to show the problem.
> 
> I hope this report will improve cmake in a way that
> other users dont have to spend hours to find this bug(?).
> 
> Regards,
> Philipp

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.user/1758/focus=1758

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Filipe Sousa

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