Hi,
I'm not sure if this is actually a bug but I've been relying on the
OBJECT library[1] feature as a convenient way of having source code in
multiple directories be put into a shared library. I now have a need
to hide the symbols in my libraries but I've found that using OBJECT
libraries means that setting the CXX_VISIBILITY_PRESET and
VISIBILITY_INLINES_HIDDEN on the final resulting shared library and/or
constituent OBJECT libraries does absolutely nothing.
Here's an example. I've kept everything in a single directory for
simplicity but the real world use case would be that ``fooX`` and
``barX`` OBJECT libraries are defined in a sub directory.
```
project(objlibtest)
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)
add_library(fooX OBJECT
foo.cpp)
add_library(barX OBJECT
bar.cpp)
add_library(result SHARED $<TARGET_OBJECTS:fooX> $<TARGET_OBJECTS:barX>)
set_target_properties(result fooX barX PROPERTIES
CXX_VISIBILITY_PRESET hidden
VISIBILITY_INLINES_HIDDEN 1)
```
If you watch the build (``make VERBOSE=1``) you'll see that neither
``-fvisibility=hidden`` nor ``-fvisibility-inlines-hidden`` get passed
to the compiler.
If the CMakeLists.txt file is like this
```
project(objlibtest)
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)
add_library(result SHARED foo.cpp bar.cpp)
set_target_properties(result PROPERTIES
CXX_VISIBILITY_PRESET hidden
VISIBILITY_INLINES_HIDDEN 1)
```
then setting ``-fvisibility=hidden`` and
``-fvisibility-inlines-hidden`` get passed.
Is this a bug or it intentional? If the only purpose of OBJECT
libraries is to provide a convenient way to group source files in
other directories then this seems like a bug.
[1] http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake/Tutorials/Object_Library
Thanks,
Dan.
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