[CMake] Xcode generator?

[Bill Hoffman]

Robert Dailey wrote:

> Thanks for explaining Bill. What you've just explained is very confusing 
> to me. What I'm trying to do is investigate CMake a bit more so we can 
> get it working for the iPhone. However, what you've just brought up I 
> still have a few more questions about but to ask them would be getting a 
> bit off-topic from CMake itself. I need to figure out why the linker 
> would require library A to be linked in twice, and perhaps the best way 
> to do this is to look at an existing project that actually specifies a 
> library to be linked multiple times.
> 
> As a final request (again, to avoid going off-topic), I would really 
> appreciate it if you could reference me to any reading materials on this 
> subject. Perhaps if Xcode does not allow a single library to be added 
> multiple times means that not every library must be linked against more 
> than one time regardless of the result of flattening the dependency tree?
> 
> Again, thanks for the help Bill. I've been primarily stuck on Windows as 
> a developer and I'm not familiar with such a linker requirement.
> 
> 

Here is some information about the problem:

http://beta.boost.org/doc/tools/build/doc/html/bbv2/faq/s05.html
http://unix.compufutura.com/mac/ch05_05.htm
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/unices/9738/

The big problem with Xcode is that there is no way to have an executable 
depend on a non-Xcode library.   Lets say you have exe foo, and it links 
to libA.a, when libA.a changes foo needs to re-link.  There is no way to 
do that in Xcode.

-Bill