[CMake] Cmake v2.8.0 ported to OS/2 - a question on DLL creation

[Bill Hoffman]

Bill Hoffman wrote:
> Paul Smedley wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Whilst it still needs more testing and the diffs definitely need 
>> tidying up, I've created an OS/2 port of cmake 2.8.0 - which is 
>> available for download from my site at http://os2ports.smedley.info
>>
>> The actual diffs + os2.cmake file can be downloaded from 
>> http://smedley.info/cmake-2.8.0-os2-patches.zip
>> One question - OS/2 has a limitation for shared libraries that they 
>> must have 8.3 filenames - can anyone think of a way to make this 
>> happen automagically in cmake?
>>
>> I was thinking of some kind of check for shared library name > 8 
>> charaters long, then mangle a new name using some combination of the 
>> first xxx characters of the requested name, and the last yyy 
>> characters of the requested name to try and make sure the DLL name is 
>> unique.
>>
> That might work....   Another possibility is to leave this up to the 
> project.  CMake could just warn and say you need to set a OUTPUT name on 
> target N for this to work on OS/2.   I would imagine that there would be 
> other changes for a project if you were porting to OS/2.
> 
I wonder if you could use the same 8.3 mapping that windows uses?  Is 
there a library for that?


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