On Wednesday 23 December 2009, Marcel Loose wrote: > Hi all, > > I suggested this in the quite long thread "third party library > dependencies", but it may have been overlooked. Hence, I started a new > thread. > > Upon (re)reading the Mandriva page > http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Overlinking, I was thinking: maybe the issue > of overlinking can be solved more or less the same way as pkg-config > does: i.e. by defining private dependencies. This could be an extra > option to target_link_libraries. > Something like: > > target_link_libraries(mylib public1 public2 PRIVATE private1 private2)
Assuming that public1 and public2 are libraries also built with cmake, that can be done already today: add_library(public1 ...) target_link_libraries(public1 private1) target_link_libraries(public1 LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES "") add_library(public2 ...) target_link_libraries(public2 private2) target_link_libraries(public2 LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES "") install(TARGETS public1 public2 ... EXPORT MyPublicLibs) install(EXPORT ...) Then later on, when loading these exported targets, you will get what you want. If public1/2 are shared libs, their "link interface" will be empty. If they are static, you will link against everything they have been "linked" against, independent of the LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES (which is used only for shared libs). Alex _______________________________________________ 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
