Ok, seems there is no other way then. Thank you for the clarification.
On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 3:44 PM Kyle Edwards <kyle.edwa...@kitware.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-07-02 at 14:18 +0200, ugesh reddy wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I couldn't find any solution's for this problem even after posting
> > the question on Reddit/stack overflow, so I am posting it here.
> >
> > My question is as follows:
> >
> > I have a static library and two target executables, let's call them
> > **libA**, **EXE1**, **EXE2**.
> >
> > **libA** has pre-processor macros which needs to be enabled or
> > disabled and another static library which needs to be linked or
> > ignored based on the target executable that I am building.
> >
> > Let's say, if I am building EXE1. Then I need to enable the macros in
> > libA and link another static library to it.
> >
> > If I am building EXE2, I need to disabled the macros in libA and
> > don't link to another library.
> >
> > I don't want to create two targets with same source files.
>
> I'm sorry to say it, but creating two targets is actually exactly what
> you want to do here. If your concern is code duplication, you can make
> the code much shorter by using variables. Example:
>
> set(libA_SRCS
> src1.c
> src2.c
> src3.c
> # lots of other sources...
> )
> add_library(libA1 STATIC ${libA_SRCS})
> target_link_libraries(libA1 otherlib)
> add_library(libA2 STATIC ${libA_SRCS})
>
> Kyle
>
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Ugesh
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