Re: [Boost-build] Using inputs into targets

From: Phillip Seaver (phil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-22 12:26:38

Sohail Somani wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: boost-build-bounces_at_[hidden] 
>> [mailto:boost-build-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Ilya Sokolov
>>     
>>> __object__ files that were inputs into the linker for 
>>>       
>> targets a and b?
>>
>> as i understand, you need this:
>> [snip very good suggestions]
>>     
>
> Ok, so I lied (sorry)... Its more like this:
>
> lib a : [ glob a/*.cpp ] ;
> lib b : [ glob b/*.cpp ] ;
> lib c : [ glob c/*.cpp ] b ; # c needs b
>
> lib all : a b c ;
>
> The globbing is throwing me off.
>
> Sohail
>   
I'm pretty sure it's possible to create a .lib that's made up of the 
objects from other .lib files, but I don't think it's trivial.  msvc and 
darwin (IIRC) support .lib's made up of other .lib's, but I believe that 
gcc doesn't.

What are you trying to accomplish?  That might give us a better idea of 
what to suggest.  Are you getting errors with that approach?

If you had a line like "exe foo : foo.c a c ;"  It would link in "a", 
"b", and "c" (for static libraries) or add all of them to the required 
dynamic libs for the executable to load at run-time.  I haven't tried 
creating a lib of other lib's before, so I don't know if that gives an 
error...

Phillip