[CMake] Generic way to combine static libs

[Mike Jackson]

You can do all sorts of things with CMake. You can generate files  
from templates or on the fly. You can then include those files in  
another target within CMake. I think the HDF5 build does something  
like this. I Know the ParaView builds do something like this.

If you look at the CMake documentation for "configure_file" you can  
get some more information. You may also need to look at  
"Add_custom_command".

I think the tiff build does something like this also, which is  
included in ParaView.

Maybe someone with a concrete example can give you some example code  
to work from.

Hope that helps a bit
-- 
Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services


On May 9, 2008, at 1:01 AM, Christoph Cullmann wrote:

> On Thursday 08 May 2008 22:32:44 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>> I think there is currently no generic solution to combine static  
>> libs into
>> another library.
>> Do you need the two static libs or could you just create one  
>> static lib
>> right away ?
> At the moment we need two, as the second internal lib is created by  
> some
> helper tool which takes some definitions and creates for them some
> datastructures as C code with their own makefiles + cppflags. If we  
> would
> change this utility to create cmakefiles, would that help? How  
> would it be
> possible to compile the generated C/C++ files (their names are not  
> known in
> advance, they depend on the definition given) with the generated  
> cppflags?
> Is it possible to include in a CMakeLists.txt a generated file  
> which is
> generated at compile time?
>
> cu
> Christoph
>
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