[CMake] Object files as targets (or add_object)

[Henrique Almeida]

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2009/6/18 Henrique Almeida <hdante at gmail.com>:
>  Hello,
>
>  I'm working on a cross platform libc implementation that uses CMake
> for the building process. I've noticed that CMake doesn't currently
> support adding non linked or partially linked object files as a
> target. For example, I need to install a "runtime.o" object file which
> will provide runtime support for the library users. I've searched the
> CMake mailing list and I've found a question about partially linked
> object files (the poster had issues with circular references), in
> which the poster suggests, as a trick, creating a static library, then
> manually unpacking the archive and running the linker with the
> "relocatable" flag to build the partially linked object (which
> required knowledge of the archiver and linker argument parameters).
> I've not seen any further comment about this, however.
>
>  Are there any plans to add built-in, cross-platform support for
> defining object files as targets ? This is something some projects
> would benefit with.
>
> --
>  Henrique Dante de Almeida
>  hdante at gmail.com
>



-- 
 Henrique Dante de Almeida
 hdante at gmail.com