Hi,
>> Hopefully I'm misunderstanding you, since otherwise the list would
>contain
>> close to 4000 files.
>
>Well, I don't see a real problem with this. If this makes your files too
>long,
>just separate the setting of these source-variables into separate files.
I would prefer to keep the source listing with the source files, so perhaps I
should chain .cmake files from the level where I wish to generate
mystaticlib.a. That would make maintaining the source lists easier for
inadvertent users. To clarify, the average Fortran77 user (mathematician,
physicist, structural engineer etc.) I know usually does not have a computer
science background, so usability is a relative big issue.
>> But I took a look at Michael Wild's approach (thanks Tyler) which
>leads me
>> to believe there is no clean way to go about it. I suppose in the
>spirit of
>> his solution I could create a global list of the archives I obtain,
>and
>> feed them to target_link_libraries (myexecutable
>> ${my_global_list_of_archives}) in the same scope where I call
>> add_executable().
>
>If you are creating an executable (I thought you were creating a static
>library as end result), you can just link your executable against all
>these
>static libs.
I am. Well, it's complicated. We provide one big archive to link against, so
the core of the program is inside the binary when they define their own
routines. There is no point in making it a shared object since it is never
shared. Most users will just use the binary we provide.
It just seems that cmake was set up with a different mindset, in which it is
frowned upon to create a single library (static or not) composed of multiple
source directories. I will try to wrap something around add_subdirectory() and
have my_add_subdirectory() take care of propagation of the (127 :) source lists
to the parent scope, so I can get a list for add_library(). If that fails
perhaps just be satisfied with referencing all source lists explicitly from the
top... Any other suggestions very welcome.
Thanks,
Arjen
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