[CMake] Cmake v2.8.0 ported to OS/2 - a question on DLL creation

[Bill Hoffman]

Paul Smedley wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Whilst it still needs more testing and the diffs definitely need 
> tidying up, I've created an OS/2 port of cmake 2.8.0 - which is 
> available for download from my site at http://os2ports.smedley.info
> 
> The actual diffs + os2.cmake file can be downloaded from 
> http://smedley.info/cmake-2.8.0-os2-patches.zip 
> 
> One question - OS/2 has a limitation for shared libraries that they 
> must have 8.3 filenames - can anyone think of a way to make this 
> happen automagically in cmake?
> 
> I was thinking of some kind of check for shared library name > 8 
> charaters long, then mangle a new name using some combination of the 
> first xxx characters of the requested name, and the last yyy 
> characters of the requested name to try and make sure the DLL name is 
> unique.
> 
That might work....   Another possibility is to leave this up to the 
project.  CMake could just warn and say you need to set a OUTPUT name on 
target N for this to work on OS/2.   I would imagine that there would be 
other changes for a project if you were porting to OS/2.


This is interesting work, I would be interested in incorporating it into 
CMake if you were willing to run a nightly OS/2 dashboard.  Would you be 
willing to do that?

-Bill

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