On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:19:05 +0100, "Marcel Loose" <lo...@astron.nl> wrote: > Hi Roman, > > Not in a portable way. I'm not too familiar with Windows, but on Linux > you can do this when libA is a shared library that has its dependency on > libB linked in (e.g. ldd libA.so will tell you this). When linking in > static libraries you're out of luck.
With shared libraries, you need not and *should not* explicitly link recursive dependencies. If you have both static and shared libraries, the output of ldd could be used to find the recursive deps needed to link statically. This sucks and the logic to determine whether to put recursive deps in FOO_LIBRARIES ends up going in FindFoo.cmake which is insane. FWIW, pkg-config has Libs.private for this purpose. Finally, it would be nice to easily associate a symbol with a call to find_library. That is, suppose libA links to libB and libC, but libA never exposes libB or libC to users. To do the right thing (without abusing ldd), FindA.cmake needs to try linking with just -lA (which will work with all shared libs), then try with -lA -lB and -lA -lC before falling back to -lA -lB -lC (which is required when all libs are static). A better way which does not have exponential complexity would be to declare that the symbol "B_Foo" belongs with a libB and "C_Bar" belongs with a libC. So when linking with -lA fails, libB would be added exactly when B_Foo is undefined. Jed _______________________________________________ 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://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
