[CMake] faking convenience libraries

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

On Friday, 19 January 2007 20:07, kitts wrote:
> On Friday 19 January 2007 23:57 IST, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> > We need to compile the same underlying code 7 times for 7 different
> > libraries.  3 of the resulting libs are dynamic and 4 are static.  We
> > would use "convenience libraries" to do this, if it were portable and
> > available in CMake.  We understand that "ar" in particular can't include
> > static libraries in other static libraries.  How can we reduce the
> > number of times we have to compile this code, without getting into a lot
> > of hairy details?
>
> I would be interested in knowing this. I am faced with the a similar
> problem. I have to build several libraries each with their own source code
> but depending on some common code. I could build a library out of the
> common code but those API's not to be exposed.
>
> I tried adding the common library as a dependency for the target lib but
> that dint build them together either. The current target built itself like
> it had no dependency on the common library.

Rosegarden uses a static library named RosegardenCommon, that is linked to the  
two executables rosegarden and rosegardensequencer.

http://rosegarden.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/rosegarden/trunk/rosegarden/src/CMakeLists.txt

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Pedro