[CMake] Adding -fPIC to static libraries

[Brad King]

Prakash Punnoor wrote:
> Am Mittwoch März 1 2006 21:06 schrieb Brad King:
> 
>>Prakash Punnoor wrote:
>>Supporting this in CMake is tricky.  The problem we face that libtool
>>does not is supporting Windows compilers (correct me if I'm wrong I have
>>not checked this).
> 
> Not that I know of. Thinking again, it might be that the difference with cmake 
> would be much less porblematic, if cmake would have "convenience libs" such 
> that these are "static" libs which don't get installed but can be used for 
> linkinginto static/shared libs and exes. CMake could decides itself whether 
> it need to compile the convenience libs' objects twice or only pic or non-pic 
> (unlike libtool which does it always twice). Wouldn't this be a feasable 
> option? Should be fairly easy to handle by cmake. It just needs to compile 
> max two static libs, one with pic, one without.

It is definately worth investigating but I'm not sure when we can get to 
it.  You can add a feature request here:

http://www.cmake.org/Bug

> While we're at it: You probably want to disallow "-" in target names, as it is 
> not portable, as I experienced. At least nmake in Windows complains and 
> errors out.

This is just a generator bug.  I think it was fixed in CVS recently.

-Brad