[cmake-developers] A type for static plugins?

[Brad King]

On 09/20/2013 12:03 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>  if (my_lib_type STREQUAL SHARED)
>    add_library(some_plugin MODULE main.cpp)
>  else()
>    add_library(some_plugin STATIC
>      SOURCES main.cpp
>      PROPERTIES 
>        STATICPLUGIN 1
>         # If we need this anyway, we might as well move it upscope 
>         # and remove the CMAKE_SHARED_MODULE_PREFIX setting, replacing 
>         # it with
>         #  set_property(TARGET some_plugin PROPERTY PREFIX "")
>        PREFIX ""
>      )
>  endif()

That has to duplicate the list of sources, and the properties make
the add_library call start to look pretty verbose anyways.
Currently we can just do:

 set(plugin_type ...) # MODULE or STATIC
 add_library(some_plugin ${plugin_type} main.cpp)
 set_target_properties(some_plugin PROPERTIES PLUGIN "1" PREFIX "")

Can't this be packaged up in a qt_add_plugin() API?

> seems another gain from adding a STATIC_MODULE type would be control of 
> things like the default PREFIX

Yes, but everything is already possible to achieve without a new
target type, and a new type will add a lot of complexity.

-Brad