Hi,
Convey, Christian J CIV NUWC NWPT wrote:
I've got three libraries, A, B, C. C uses symbols from B, and B uses
symbols from A.
When I build these libraries as static libraries (libA.a, libB.a, and
libC.a), the linker is perfectly happy to produce libC.a even if I
haven't told it about B. It seems that all that matters is, when I'm
linking together some executable program that uses libC.a, I have to
tell the linker about libB.a and (presumably) libA.a.
When I tried building my libraries as shared objects, however, the
linker seemed much fussier. When the linker was trying to produce
libC.so, it got very upset about the unresolved symbols in libC.so's
object code.
at least for MinGW static libraries are just containers of object files,
so you can't link in other static libraries. If you use them in your
application you need to link in C and since C depends on B also B and so
on. Shared libraries are more or less executables and they need all the
code to run, so you need to link in B and A.
> To remedy this, I added this line: "TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(C, B)" and
"TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(B, A)". But I'm not sure I understand all the
ramifications of solving the problem this way.
That's correct. Doesn't do anything for static case, but links the
correct libraries for shared case.
For example, does that mean that libC.so will export not only its own
symbols, but also those provided by B and A? And would that answer
change if I had build B and A as static libraries, while still building
C as a shared object?
In that case, symbols of A and B are linked into C. But C doesn't export
symbols from A and B, just uses them.
Also, suppose I go back to building all my libraries as static
libraries. Will there be any harm in having those TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES
statements still in my CMakeLists.txt files? And if I do leave them
there, does this mean that I can get away with just writing this:
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(myApp C)
rather than
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(myApp C B A)
since CMake could (potentially) have enough information to realize that
myApp has a transitive link-time dependency on B and A?
There was a discussion on this mailing list a week ago about this topic
and as far as I remember does CMake the correct thing (if you told it
the dependencies).
Werner
Thanks,
Christian
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