[CMake] Linking on OSX

[Bryan Christ]

Indeed.  They all have their nuances :)

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 4:36 PM Guy Harris <guy at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> On Jun 4, 2019, at 2:27 PM, Bryan Christ <bryan.christ at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the explanation.  Yes.  The use of the term Library certainly
> added to my confusion.  I've been coding on Linux for 20 and the "proper"
> way of doing things on Mac is a bit elusive to me as I stumble around.
>
> Yeah, it must be weird going from a system that stuffs libraries in
> /usr/lib64 to a system that stuffs them in /usr/lib. :-)
>
> (There's no need to put 32-bit and 64-bit libraries in separate
> directories if you can put the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of a library in
> the same file, as you can in Darwin.
>
> But the real point is that every UN*X has its own quirks, and somebody
> might find the UN*X with which you're most familiar to be the quirky one.
> If you're going to do cross-platform UN*X programming, be prepared to have
> assumptions about UN*X, made based on the platform or platforms with which
> you're familiar, to be violated by some other UN*X.)



-- 
Bryan
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