[cmake-developers] Please comment on ios-universal topic

[Ruslan Baratov]

On 09-Dec-15 04:51, Gregor Jasny wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On 02/12/15 13:44, Bartosz Kosiorek wrote:
>> I would like to propose to rename property name to INSTALL_IOS_UNIVERSAL_LIBS.
> My thoughts about the property name:
>
> I added the necessary functionality to also combine Frameworks and App
> Bundles. So the _LIBS suffix now got misleading. And I think that
> providing a different property for libraries, frameworks and app bundles
> is not really helpful. To combine all targets one could set the CMAKE_
> prefixed variable, to combine only some, one could set the property on
> the target itself.
>
> Deploying applications which support both armv7 (32bit) and armv8
> (64bit) is already working by setting both architectures in the
> OSX_ARCHITECTURES property because both are covered by the device SDK.
>
> So technically we already support UNIVERSAL libraries. What we don't
> support is combining device and simulator builds. So how about replacing
> UNIVERSAL with COMBINED?
>
> IOS_INSTALL_COMBINED_BINARY

Just to clarify you want to leave only one variable IOS_INSTALL_COMBINED_BINARY for the device + simulator on iOS platforms. Other platforms (in future) will be controlled by using *_ARCHITECTURES variables, right?

Ruslo