Hi all; I saw an email to the list from Chuck Atkins in the summer of 2017 suggesting that OBJECT libraries were being enhanced and could become fully-functional libraries hopefully sometime that year. I'm wondering if that ever actally happened and if so what release of cmake it was in, and if not is there still a plan for this sometime?
I'm trying to convert a large and complex cmake environment originally started in 2007 or so, which uses all old-school cmake facilities, to use modern cmake methods. I have a situation where we have a library containing basic methods which can be implemented multiple ways and different executables use different implementations. However these methods are used by all sorts of static libraries as well. Since we don't know until executable link time which library to use, the static libraries cannot depend on the base library: it has to be listed only in the executable's target_link_libraries. But of course because the static libraries use them as well we need the base library to be listed last (or near last) in the link line else we get undefined symbols. Adding the base library to the executable TLL doesn't allow us to do that. So I was thinking of making this base library an OBJECT library so it would always be fully linked but it seems that our version of cmake doesn't allow an OBJECT library to be used as a normal library and I'd be reduced to adding lots of generator expressions for it everywhere which is a huge PITA. Any ideas on how best to address this situation, if OBJECT libraries are not supported yet? -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: https://cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
