> On Sep 1, 2017, at 10:39 AM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Suppose I have a library target and I setup a config package for it > and install target exports for it. What is the process for supporting > installation of the shared library and static library variants (maybe > the same answer applies to debug and release variants too)? > > Should you create 1 target and rely on BUILD_SHARED_LIBS, which means > generating two binary directories, building and installing once in > each?
This is the best approach as it leaves the decision of building shared or static to the clients. > Will this overwrite existing target.cmake and config.cmake files > in a negative way? You could install each variant of shared and static to separate install directories. For debug and release you can install together, as cmake generates a target-<configuration>.cmake for each configuration. I suppose you could embed some logic in the config.cmake file to pick a different export file for shared or static as well. > > Or should there be 2 library targets (something like foo_shared and > foo_static) and build & install once? No, this is rather problematic: 1) If your dependencies are built for just one variant as well, then one of those targets could fail. 2) A downstream library may only want to create 1 target, and now it has to add extra logic to decide if it should choose the shared or static target, which is cumbersome. -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake
