macro(libtool_create_control_file _target)
- # Get target properties to fill into control file
get_target_property(_target_location ${_target} LOCATION)
get_target_property(_target_type ${_target} TYPE)
message("-- Creating static libtool control file for target ${_target}")
- # No support for shared libraries as tigervnc only needs libtool config files
- # for static libraries
+ # No support for shared libraries, as TigerVNC only needs libtool config
+ # files for static libraries.
if("${_target_type}" MATCHES "^[^STATIC_LIBRARY]$")
- message(ERROR " - trying to use libtool_create_control_file on non static library target.")
+ message(ERROR " - trying to use libtool_create_control_file for non-static library target.")
endif()
#
- # Parse the target_LIB_DEPENDS of libraries to put into libtool control file
- # as library dependencies and handle a few corners...
+ # Parse the target_LIB_DEPENDS variable to determine which libraries to put
+ # into libtool control file as library dependencies, and handle a few corner
+ # cases.
#
foreach(library ${${_target}_LIB_DEPENDS})
- # Assume all entries as shared if not platform specific static library
- # extension is matched
+ # Assume all entries are shared libs if platform-specific static library
+ # extension is not matched.
if("${library}" MATCHES "[^.+\\${CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_SUFFIX}]$")
- # Check if we have shared extenstion or not
if("${library}" MATCHES ".+\\${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX}$")
- # We got an shared library lets cut it down to path and library name then
- # add to libtool dependency libs, we always assume this is a absoult path
- # because this is how cmake does..
+ # Shared library extension matched, so extract the path and library
+ # name, then add the result to the libtool dependency libs. This
+ # will always be an absolute path, because that's what CMake uses
+ # internally.
get_filename_component(_shared_lib ${library} NAME_WE)
get_filename_component(_shared_lib_path ${library} PATH)
string(REPLACE "lib" "" _shared_lib ${_shared_lib})
set(_target_dependency_libs "${_target_dependency_libs} -L${_shared_lib_path} -l${_shared_lib}")
else()
- # No shared library suffix found, might also be a cmake target.
- # Dont continue if we have a target name as lib due to we
- # assume static linkage against out targets
+ # No shared library extension matched. Check whether target is a CMake
+ # target.
get_target_property(_ltp ${library} TYPE)
if(${_ltp})
- # No cmake target soo let's use find_library to see if we found any useful to use
+ # Not a CMake target, so use find_library() to attempt to locate the
+ # library in a system directory.
find_library(FL ${library})
if(FL)
- # Found library, lets cut it down to make libtool happy
+ # Found library, so extract the path and library name, then add the
+ # result to the libtool dependency libs.
get_filename_component(_shared_lib ${FL} NAME_WE)
get_filename_component(_shared_lib_path ${FL} PATH)
string(REPLACE "lib" "" _shared_lib ${_shared_lib})
set(_target_dependency_libs "${_target_dependency_libs} -L${_share_lib_path} -l${_shared_lib}")
else()
- # Nothing found, lets ignore it
+ # No shared library found, so ignore target.
endif()
else()
- # taget detected lets ignore it
+ # Target is a CMake target, so ignore if (CMake targets are static
+ # libs in TigerVNC.)
endif()
endif()
else()
- # Detected a static library, we want the absolute path so lets check if we have that
- # if not try use find_library to get one
+ # Detected a static library. Check whether the library pathname is
+ # absolute and, if not, use find_library() to get the abolute path.
get_filename_component(_name ${library} NAME)
string(REPLACE "${_name}" "" _path ${library})
if(NOT "${_path}" MATCHES "")
- # We got a full path to static library lets add as is to libtool library dependencies
+ # Pathname is absolute, so add it to the libtool library dependencies
+ # as-is.
set(_target_dependency_libs "${_target_dependency_libs} ${library}")
else()
- # there no path for the static library lets use find_library to find one
+ # Pathname is not absolute, so use find_library() to get the absolute
+ # path.
find_library(FL ${library})
if(FL)
- # got the library lets add it..
+ # Absolute pathname found. Add it.
set(_target_dependency_libs "${_target_dependency_libs} ${FL}")
else()
- # Nothing found, let's ignore it
+ # No absolute pathname found. Ignore it.
endif()
endif()
endif()
endforeach()
- # Write the libtool control file for static library
+ # Write the libtool control file for the static library
get_filename_component(_lname ${_target_location} NAME_WE)
set(_laname ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${_lname}.la)
file(APPEND ${_laname} "libdir=''\n\n")
- # Add custom command to symlink the static library so that autotools finds the library in .libs
- # these are executed after the specified target build.
+ # Add custom command to symlink the static library so that autotools finds
+ # the library in .libs. These are executed after the specified target build.
add_custom_command(TARGET ${_target} POST_BUILD COMMAND
cmake -E make_directory "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/.libs")
add_custom_command(TARGET ${_target} POST_BUILD COMMAND