[CMake] Re: heads up on convenience lib ? and a problem on source files with similar names...

[Asmodehn Shade]

On Wed, 9 May 2007 00:48:25 +0200
Asmodehn Shade <asmodehn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I've seen in the FAQ and mailing list, that CMake doesnt support convenience libraries right now.
> I was trying to set up a set of cmake files to help in builds, when the directory hierarchy is already decided.
> Anyway I gave up my ideas of having convenience libraries for now. So now I add every sourcefile to the main target.
> 
> But I ve had problem with that strategy. One of my old convenience library has a source file named "source.c" and my main target has a source file named "source.cc"
> From that it seems that Cmake builds only one "source.o", ignoring one of the source files...
> 
> So here are my questions : 
> - What is the status of supporting convenience libraries ? Anyone knows if / when this will be likely to work ?
> - Does someone has a solution to the problem of source file with similar name ( other than renaming my files, and the naming conventions I ve had everywhere so far ;) ) ??
> Maybe cmake could just build source.o and source_1.o for example ? or some other name matching pattern based on the path and extension ?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> --
> Asmodehn
> 

Hi everyone,

After having a closer look at this issue I dont think it s name related anymore, even if I dont have a clue right now ^^ .
Anyway now having source.c and source.cc in the source for my target, I ended up with a " cannot determine link language " although I carefully wrote :

PROJECT ( target CXX )

When forcing the link language :

SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${project_name} PROPERTIES LINKER_LANGUAGE CXX)

I can see in my source that some of my .cc file became .c ...
Well it my be an error on my side, How ever I wonder how cmake works when mixing C and C++ code. Is there a doc about that somewhere ?

Most of my problem comes from that I think, as I am trying to mix convenience lib C code and C++ target code.

So I wonder what s the best option for me right now... wait for convenience lib support in cmake ;) ? rewrite my C code in C++ look-alike files ? keep looking for bugs in my macros ?
I have a sample of my hierarchy to test my macros if someone is interested, probably a bit too big to put it right here...

Thanks for any hints,

--
Asmodehn