[CMake] Dealing with circular linker dependencies

Juan Sanchez Juan.Sanchez at amd.com
Thu Oct 4 14:11:59 EDT 2007


Aside from rearchitecting your project.  You need to place one library
on both sides of the other library in the arguments to the linker.

-l A -l B -l A

This assures that the linker can resolve all the needed symbols.

Juan

Tal Blum wrote:
> I have two c++ libraries each depending on the other which creates a
> circular linker dependency problem. Does anyone know how to solve this
> problem? If this is not possible to solve at the command-line level can
> someone tell me how I can write a ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND or
> ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET that will collect all the object files into a new
> library and make my executable depend on that new library target.
> 
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> Thanks, Tal
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