[CMake] CMake and portable dynamic library loading?

[Alexander Neundorf]

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Datum: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:24:58 -0700 (PDT)
Von: "Alan W. Irwin" <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca>
An: Alexander Neundorf <a.neundorf-work at gmx.net>
Betreff: Re: [CMake] CMake and portable dynamic library loading?

> On 2006-10-01 19:01+0200 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> 
> >
> > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Datum: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:00:23 +0600
> > Von: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar-alt at mail.ru>
> > An: cmake at cmake.org
> > Betreff: Re: [CMake] CMake and portable dynamic library loading?
> >
> >> On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 08:34:58AM -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> >>> However, libltdl does not solve the issue of how to dynamically load
> >>> plug-ins on windows systems.
> >> SIM always used libltdl on all platforms without problems (until we
> >> switched to QLibrary).
> >
> > The same for KDE.
> > We are using now cmake and until some days ago libltdl, since some days
> we switched to QLibrary.
> > We even created fake libtool-la files.
> >
> Hi Alex:
> 
> The PLplot windows developers are beginning to try libltdl now but they
> have
> run into an issue which is it is available on Cygwin but doesn't seem to
> be 
> widely available in binary form on bare windows platforms.  The obvious
> solution is to build it internally. When KDE used this library was that
> the
> option chosen? If so, could you point me to the CMake files used to build
> libltdl? That would save our project some time since I assume there are
> lots
> of platform-dependent linking issues (since libltdl is simply a wrapper
> with
> uniform API for whatever platform library is used to do dynamic loading).


Get trunk/KDE/kdelibs/ from some time ago, e.g. june.
Then have a look at kdelibs/kdecore/CMakeLists.txt, I think it is (was) compiled into libkdecore. There are a bunch of configure checks in kdelibs/ConfigureChecks.cmake.

If you have more questions, feel free to aks :-)

Bye
Alex

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