[CMake] static library link order

[Biddiscombe, John A.]

given a config like this

TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(${KIT}CxxTests vtkIO vtkImaging vtksys)

I have the trouble that vtksys pulls in a whole bunch of DynamicLoader stuff (kwsys) - which apart from being rather odd when building statically, forces the linker to need -ldl added to the link line.

The trouble I've got is that no matter which EXE_LINKER_FLAG etc, or other option I change, TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES adds stuff to the end, and on linux, link order is important, so I am constantly having to manually edit cmake/make files to get stuff to link (libdl, libGL, libmpich, lib etc etc). This problem is a big one in the whole paraview build system.

Is there any simple fix out there? (NB. It's not just libdl, but many others like it).

JB


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