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jdie8274j
jdie8274j

Reputation: 155

How to include subdirectories in shared object build

I have reorganised my project and I'd like to know how to include the source code from subdirectories in the build of my shared object. I now have the following directory structure:

src/
    Component/
        CMakeLists.txt
        SubComponent1/
            src1.h
            src1.cpp
        SubComponent2/
            src2.h
            src2.cpp

My CMakeLists.txt currently looks like:

add_library(MainProject SHARED src1.cpp src2.cpp)

How do I now update it so that it will build the folders below? Do I also need to add CMakeLists.txt to the SubComponentX folders?

Thank you

Upvotes: 2

Views: 403

Answers (1)

rocambille
rocambille

Reputation: 15966

If you still want the sources to be buit into a single library, just change the paths in your project:

add_library(MainProject SHARED
    SubComponent1/src1.cpp
    SubComponent2/src2.cpp
)

If you want each of your subdirectories to build separately, you can use add_subdirectory in src/Component/CMakeLists.txt:

add_subdirectory(SubComponent1)
add_subdirectory(SubComponent2)

In this case, you will indeed need a CMakeLists file in src/Component/SubComponent{1,2} declaring the sub libraries:

add_library(SubComponent1 SHARED src1.cpp)

# ...

target_link_libraries(MainProject SubComponent1)

Note that you can declare object libraries to separate compilation while avoiding multiple library files in the end:

add_library(SubComponent1 OBJECT src1.cpp)

# ...

add_library(MainProject $<TARGET_OBJECTS:SubComponent1> ...)

Upvotes: 1

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