Same source, all that, just want a static and shared version both. Easy to do?
Yes, it's moderately easy. Just use two "add_library" commands:
add_library(MyLib SHARED source1.c source2.c)
add_library(MyLibStatic STATIC source1.c source2.c)
Even if you have many source files, you can place the list of sources in a Cmake
variable, so it's still easy to do.
On Windows you should probably give each library a different name, since there is a ".lib" file for both shared and static. But on Linux and Mac you can even give both libraries the same name (e.g. libMyLib.a
and libMyLib.so
):
set_target_properties(MyLibStatic PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME MyLib)
But I don't recommend giving both the static and dynamic versions of the library the same name. I prefer to use different names because that makes it easier to choose static vs. dynamic linkage on the compile line for tools that link to the library. Usually I choose names like libMyLib.so
(shared) and libMyLib_static.a
(static). (Those would be the names on linux.)