[Bf-committers] cmake vs scons

[Ken Hughes]

Paul Fitzpatrick wrote:
> On 01/14/2010 07:56 PM, Campbell Barton wrote:
>   
>> re: output try..
>> make -s
>> or...
>> make VERBOSE=0
>>    
>>     
>
> That gives quiet output, I think Ken may have wanted the opposite, to 
> inhibit quiet output:
>    make VERBOSE=1
> This should show the full compile and link commands, rather than just 
> the pretty summaries.
>
>
>   
Yeah, that was what I wanted.
>> Im not sure about static linking, though even on scons this is a pain,
>>    
>>     
>
> One way I've done this in the past (for official releases of other 
> programs, not blender) is to make a collection of all the libraries I 
> wanted linked statically in a subdirectory of my build directory, say 
> "static_libs",and then added this at the beginning of the main 
> CMakeLists.txt file:
>
>    SET (STATLIB "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/static_libs")
>    IF (EXISTS ${STATLIB})
>        MESSAGE(STATUS "static_libs directory present: ${STATLIB}")
>        LINK_DIRECTORIES(${STATLIB})
>        FILE(GLOB statlibs ${STATLIB}/*.a)
>        LINK_LIBRARIES(${statlibs})
>        # Optional: statically link gcc library.
>        # Make sure you link libstdc++.a too for C++ code.
>        ADD_DEFINITIONS(-static-libgcc)
>        SET(CMAKE_CXX_LINK_EXECUTABLE "${CMAKE_CXX_LINK_EXECUTABLE} 
> -static-libgcc")
>    ENDIF (EXISTS ${STATLIB})
>
> There's probably a more elegant way, but this seems to work - the static 
> versions of the libraries get picked up for linking.
> Cheers,
> Paul
>   
I just hacked something to make it find libpng.a, so yeah it's just a 
matter of hacking away to get it.

Ken