Hi Folks, I've just pushed a new 'object-library' topic and merged to 'next' for testing. David Cole and I have been working on it for a couple of weeks. The following documentation added to the add_library command explains:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- The signature add_library(<name> OBJECT <src>...) creates a special "object library" target. An object library compiles source files but does not archive or link their object files into a library. Instead other targets created by add_library or add_executable may reference the objects using an expression of the form $<TARGET_OBJECTS:objlib> as a source, where "objlib" is the object library name. For example: add_library(... $<TARGET_OBJECTS:objlib> ...) add_executable(... $<TARGET_OBJECTS:objlib> ...) will include objlib's object files in a library and an executable along with those compiled from their own sources. Object libraries may contain only sources (and headers) that compile to object files. They may contain custom commands generating such sources, but not PRE_BUILD, PRE_LINK, or POST_BUILD commands. Object libraries cannot be imported, exported, installed, or linked. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many of the documented restrictions are temporary until meaningful behavior can be defined and implemented for them in a future version. It is easiest to simply disallow all but the basic use case for now. This feature plays a role similar to autotools convenience libraries but works with all toolchains and under VS and Xcode. We've updated all primary generators to support object libraries including the Ninja generator. Until this goes into master watch out for conflicts when making changes to the other generators. We are still missing support in the "Extra" generators to present OBJECT libraries in the project files. They need to appear much like STATIC libraries but have no library/archive file. We request help from the contributors of Extra generators to handle them. Thanks, -Brad -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
