<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">This seems like something that would be best-suited for a toolchain file<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Is a toolchain file not equivalent to the corresponding list of '-D' initializers? (aside from convenience)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 1:34 PM Michael Ellery <<a href="mailto:mellery451@gmail.com" target="_blank">mellery451@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This seems like something that would be best-suited for a toolchain file:<br>
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<a href="https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-toolchains.7.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-toolchains.7.html</a><br>
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Have you given that a try? Also, I wonder if STATIC_LIBRARY_FLAGS is a custom setting, because I don’t think that one is a standard cmake variable.<br>
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-Mike<br>
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> On Aug 14, 2018, at 9:30 AM, Irina Chernushina via CMake <<a href="mailto:cmake@cmake.org" target="_blank">cmake@cmake.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Hi,<br>
> <br>
> What is the correct way of setting archiver (and flags) and linker<br>
> (and flags) outside the CMakeLists.txt?<br>
> <br>
> 1) I am trying to use the following pattern:<br>
> <br>
> cmake -DCMAKE_AR="<path-to-ar>" -DCMAKE_CXX_LINK_EXECUTABLE="<linker<br>
> path> <FLAGS> <CMAKE_CXX_LINK_FLAGS> <LINK_FLAGS> <OBJECTS> -o<br>
> <TARGET> <LINK_LIBRARIES>" -DSTATIC_LIBRARY_FLAGS="<flags>"<br>
> -DCMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS="<flags>"<br>
> -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="<flags>"<br>
> <br>
> Is that in general correct options to pass that information?<br>
> Judging by documentation, they are.<br>
> <br>
> 2) However, I am getting the following warning:<br>
> CMake Warning:<br>
>  Manually-specified variables were not used by the project:<br>
> <br>
>    STATIC_LIBRARY_FLAGS<br>
> (Also, in CMakeCache.txt this variable is UNINITIALIZED)<br>
> <br>
> If I am trying to use CMAKE_STATIC_LINKER_FLAGS, I get in the cache:<br>
> <br>
> //Path to a program.<br>
> CMAKE_AR:FILEPATH=/usr/bin/ar<br>
> ...<br>
> //Flags used by the linker during the creation of static libraries.<br>
> CMAKE_STATIC_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=rcsD<br>
> <br>
> But the link command looks like:<br>
> <br>
> /usr/bin/ar qc libXXX.a rcsD file1.o .. filen.o<br>
> /usr/bin/ranlib libz.a<br>
> <br>
> and I get the error:<br>
> /usr/bin/ar: rcsD: No such file or directory<br>
> <br>
> Because the order of ar arguments is wrong, flags should come before "qc".<br>
> <br>
> Thank you in advance<br>
> Irina<br>
> <br>
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