[CMake] Problem with generated source and header files

[Jörg Förstner]

Hi Tyler,

> I don't know if linking multiple shared libraries together 
> like that is
> going to work. You might need to compile libxyz.generated as a static
> lib.

You're right. Either I'll have to use a static library for libxyz.generated or I manage to add the generated objects to libxyz (the non-generated one) directly, in one step.

> > The following attempt does not work, because the 
> subdirectory "generated" is still empty, when FILE is called:
> 
> Right, because file() is run at CMake time but you need to work with
> files generated at make time.
> 
> >   FILE( GLOB SRCS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/generated/*.cpp )
> >   ADD_LIBRARY( xyz.generated SHARED ${SRCS} )
> >   ADD_DEPENDENCIES( xyz.generated generate_files )
> 
> I can't think of a good way to do this (it seems to me you'd have to
> generate the list at make time and then somehow interpolate the list
> into the already-written Makefile -- sounds ugly). 

How about generating a CMakeLists.txt file at maketime, containing the file list and somehow calling make or even cmake again?

> Can you change how you use the generator so that the files it writes
> have predictable names?

The output files' names and contents are derived from a MetaModel. New objects in the MetaModel result in new files' names and contents.

Joerg