thanks for the tips so far and I can link external libs with e.g. libsql.a but the problem seems to go deeper and the core issue appears to be - linking a static library to say libsql.a breaks generation of libmysqld.a as Linux ar/ranlib can not strip out nested linked libraries. This is somewhat of a limitation and would cause quite some rewrite of things ready for integration (into libsql). Ouch. Rob On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Vladislav Vaintroub <wlad@montyprogram.com>wrote:
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES({$LIBNAME}) is not a correct syntax****
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It does need target (you link your library to some other library or executable, and this library or executable is called target)****
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TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(<target> “${LIBNAME}”) should work****
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For example, if you want to link something with mysqld, you add to CMakeLists.txt ****
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(mysqld “${LIBNAME}”) ****
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*From:* Maria-developers [mailto:maria-developers-bounces+wlad= montyprogram.com@lists.launchpad.net] *On Behalf Of *rg *Sent:* Montag, 19. August 2013 01:53 *To:* maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net *Subject:* [Maria-developers] linking an external library****
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Folks,****
I want to link an external library for a language extension. After several hours of trying to tell cmake (^%$@*&) to pick it up for linking the library would still not be built with.
CMakeLists.txt in trunk/sql is in the meantime full of pointers to the library without avail.****
I did the normal FIND_LIBRARY()****
followed by TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES({$LIBNAME}) on various targets****
plus as nothing worked: SET(CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH) on it, explicity LINK_DIRECTORIES(), SET(CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH), SET(CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH) ... ** **
How do I link mariadb with an external library??****
Thanks Rob****
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