[llvm-dev] Building SVN head with CMake - shared libraries?

[Andrew Wilkins via llvm-dev]

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 at 03:44 Ismail Donmez via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Chris Bieneman via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Jan 14, 2016, at 11:22 AM, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Jan 14, 2016, at 9:38 AM, Chris Bieneman via llvm-dev
> > <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Jan 14, 2016, at 5:18 AM, Dan Liew <dan at su-root.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On 14 January 2016 at 11:24, David Jones via llvm-dev
> > <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks - I'll try this tonight.
> >
> > Assuming it works, should these variables be added to the docs at
> > http://llvm.org/docs/CMake.html ?
> >
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> >
> > It probably makes sense to add LLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB, but I would
> discourage
> > adding BUILD_SHARED_LIBS to that document. BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is rarely
> what
> > people actually want, and a lot of people gravitate to it because the
> > wording is similar to the autoconf —enable-shared flag.
> >
> >
> > Considering that BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is rarely what people want, wouldn’t
> it
> > make sense to document it to explicitly discourage people from using it
> and
> > avoid them surprising behavior?
> >
> >
> > Honestly, I’m not sure *anyone* actually wants that behavior, and I’d
> kinda
> > like to remove the option entirely.
>
> Do I understand it correctly that LLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB produces a one
> big libLLVM.so and a lot of static libraries?


Yes.


> Btw currently for
> openSUSE builds we do utilize BUILD_SHARED_LIBS so please don't remove
> it.
>
> Thanks!
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