Re: [Boost-build] Building aggregate libraries from other libraries

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Building aggregate libraries from other libraries
From: Matt Chambers (matt.chambers42_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-28 08:33:55

On May 28, 2011 6:46 AM, "Vladimir Prus" <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On Friday, May 27, 2011 22:19:24 Matthew Chambers wrote:
> > I have a project that's split into a nice array of library targets. But
> > some of my clients want a monolithic way of accessing these. Instead of:
> > lib_pwiz_A.a
> > lib_pwiz_B.a
> > lib_pwiz_C.a
> > (+15 others)
> >
> > They just want:
> > lib_pwiz.a
> >
> > Is there a way to make an explicit target simply the aggregate all the
> > individual libraries into a monolithic one? Preferably for either
> > link=shared or link=static, but only working for link=static would be
> > acceptable.
>
> There is no tool in gcc toolchain that can do that. So, the only way is
> to write a script that would extract every member from every .a file
> (remember, that it is nothing but archive), and then compose them
> together -- both using the 'ar' utility.

I would like it to work independent of toolchain, I just used .a as an
example. I expect the aggregate target would reflect on the
sources/libraries of its sources and build a library from them. Is this
possible with a generator? Any hurdles I should expect?

Thanks,
-Matt