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

[Paul Smedley]

Hi Bill,

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 17:52:26 UTC, Bill Hoffman 
<bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:

> 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?

Windows does 8.3 mapping? Can you point to this in the cmake source?  
I wasn't aware of any windows restrictions of DLL filenames.

-- 
Cheers,

Paul.