Hi Eric. Many thanks for your reply.
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Eric Noulard <eric.noul...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/9/10 Petr Kmoch <petr.km...@gmail.com>: >> Hi all. >> >> I'm on Windows, and I need a DLL composed of multiple static >> libraries, any of which can define dllexport functions not otherwise >> referenced in the DLL. The problem is that the Visual Studio linker >> does not provide flags to link an entire static library (i.e. there is >> no equivalent to ld's --whole-archive). I tried /OPT:NOREF, it didn't >> help. >> >> The only solution I can think of is to link all of the static >> library's object files instead of the library itself (I verified >> manually that this works). I cannot put source files into the DLL >> directly, because the DLL is C and the static lib(s) are Fortran. > > Why can't you do that? > I do not use fortran since a long time ago but I do not see why you can't do > > add_library(mymixedllib foo.c blah.f90) Because I need the Fortran VS project to be a .vfproj, and that only works for pure-Fortran targets. > > >> My question is thus: is there a way to retrieve the list of a target's >> object files from cmake? > > Since CMake 2.8.9 you can build "OBJECT" library, > see: > cmake --help-command add_library > > [...] > 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. > [...] A hundred thanks! That's precisely what I need. On to ask for an upgrade our company-wide cmake installation, then. Petr -- 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
