Fwd: KDE/kdebase/libkonq

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 02 March 2006 15:39, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> At 09:25 AM 3/2/2006, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
> >I don't think this is needed on win32 - otherwise we would had to link
> >kdelibs against win32 system libs what we're not doing.
>
> Actually, that happens from some other magic.  MSVC puts pragma's in its
> header files that cause the linker to link to files.  (Which is the reason
> you can not mix debug and release).

So the extra depend libs are neither needed on Linux, BSD or Windows, right ?
Should they really be required on OS X ?

> CMake does however do the library chaining for you.
>
> So, if you tell cmake all the libraries that your library directly uses,
> it will chain those libraries to any library that use your library.
> For example:
>
> add_library(A ...)
> target_link_libraries(A B C)
>
> add_library(D ...)
> target_link_libraries(D A)  # D will link to A B C
>
> add_executable(foo ...)
> target_link_libraries(foo D)  # foo will link to D A B C

But this doesn't work across different projects, i.e. when buildind kdebase 
which links to the installed libkdecore.so. Then cmake can't "remember" to 
which libs kdecore was linked ?

Bye
Alex
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