Re: [Chicken-users] status of the cmake build on win32

[Brandon J. Van Every]

felix winkelmann wrote:
> On 9/15/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > All MSVC libraries have *.lib as their suffix, whether it's debug,
> > release, static, or a dynamic stub.  These need to be disambiguated
> > somehow for various purposes.

> I think that we should drop the suffixes (like "-d" for Debug, etc.) 
> as most
> Users will only build a single version of the libraries, usually Release.
> In fact, I have already changed this in CMakeListst.txt (darcs head), 
> I hope
> this is ok for you. 

One library is ok for now.  I don't think this issue should hold up a 
release, and in any event I don't have time to do anything about it 
right now.  In the future, however, we should have multiple libraries 
capabilities on all platforms.  There's also the issue of 
multi-threading to consider.  I think Boost's disambiguated library 
suffixes is probably the correct way to implement all of these things.


> I probably implemented it rather naively, but I wasn't
> sure whether CMake uses some kind of default.

I'll look at what you actually did at some point.  I'm much more 
concerned about the OpenGL egg, and verifying whether all static exes 
are in fact being linked to dynamic libraries on all platforms.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every