[CMake] Platform specific output file advice

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-09-16 13:23+1000 Nicholas Yue wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  I have been successfully using CMake with SWIG to compile language
> extensions for Java/Python/Ruby on Linux.
>
> -- for RUBY
> SWIG_ADD_MODULE ( ribclient ruby ribclient.i ParameterList.cpp )
> SWIG_LINK_LIBRARIES ( ribclient utils 3delight ruby )
>
> -- for Java
> SWIG_ADD_MODULE ( ribclient java RIBClient.i ParameterList.cpp )
> SWIG_LINK_LIBRARIES ( ribclient utils 3delight )
>
>  The build produces *.so file on both Linux and OSX but on OSX, Ruby
> extension must end with .bundle and Java extension must be prefix with
> 'lib" and postfix with ".jnilib"
>
>  Manually renaming the file works as the content has been correctly
> compile by the Makefiles generated by CMake.
>
>  My question is should this be abstracted out into CMake as it should
> handle cross platform build or should I use/write a macro to do that?
>
>  If I have to manually intervene, could someone point me to an
> example of how one should rename a given file from within a CMake
> configuration file like CMakeLists.txt.

If its a target (sounds like the case here) then you can use
SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES.  From the documentation of that command....

"The PREFIX and SUFFIX properties override the default target
name prefix (such as "lib") and suffix (such as ".so")"

Alan
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