If you want to add object files individually to the archive, you need to be very careful that ar is serialized on unix systems. So be careful doing a parallel build.
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Archive-Pitfalls Regards, Juan Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Brandon Van Every" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On 9/16/07, Juan Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> The ar command can be used to extract the .o files from a .a file. >>> Extracting them all into the same directory, perhaps you can use some >>> file globbing to find all the objects and add them to another archive. >> Yeah but that's the ar command, which is specific to Unixy systems. >> Doesn't help a cross-platform build solution that includes MSVC. >> >> I just got done telling all you guys how to reuse objects in a >> platform independent manner. And it's in the FAQ now for handy >> reference. > > Problems arise when you have too many objects for the command line. > You need succesive links steps then. Did you consider that? > > MfG > Goswin _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake