2007/6/12, Brandon Van Every <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On some platforms, I bet the underlying linker AR can't even do it. I know it can't put static libraries inside of static libraries, thats' why everyone wants "convenience libraries" and I had to work on all that object file fakery. Possibly it can't take a DLL stub .lib either. So, if there is a solution for some platforms, it's not likely to be portable. I don't know what the MSVC linker can accomplish. Would suggest reading the MSVC docs to make sure it can be done.
I *know* that it can be done, since our current hand-written .vcproj files do it. I simply want CMake to allow me to create a static library using a command line such as: lib /out:mystaticlib.lib foo.obj bar.obj mydll.lib where mydll.lib is an import lib for mydll.dll. What you're asking for seems kinda weird. What's the motive?
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foo.obj and bar.obj uses symbols in mydll.dll, and I want to allow users of mystatic.lib to just have to link with mystaticlib.lib, and not with mydll.lib. Note that an import library on Windows *is* a static library (both having the .lib suffix is not a coincidence). The only special thing with an import library is that it exports symbols with a note that the symbol really should be found at runtime in the given dll. So, lib /out:foo.lib bar.obj fie.lib puts all the contents of bar.obj and fie.lib into foo.lib. This is very practical. Hope that makes it a little clearer. -- /Jesper
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