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user1128797
user1128797

Reputation: 21

Autotools - compiling but not distributing

i have a directory structure as 

src
 \__lib_foo
 |   \__ foo.c foo.h
 \__ main
      \__ main.c main.h

the main is the main application and main.c uses some function defined in foo.c. The requirement for me is "lib_foo must be compiled but not distributed"..how can i achieve this??

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 1

Views: 277

Answers (2)

William Pursell
William Pursell

Reputation: 212238

The autotools provide a framework for distributing source code, not compiled products. If that is your question, you can easily use an autotooled project to construct a binary package (rpm, deb, pkg, etc.) and distribute that. On the other hand, if you are merely looking for a way to use foo.c to construct a convenience library that main is statically linked against during the build, then (assuming you are using automake) you want to do put this in Makefile.am:

bin_PROGRAMS= main
noinst_LIBRARIES = libfoo.a
libfoo_a_SOURCES = foo.c

If you change the name of foo.c to libfoo.c, the third line is not needed.

--EDIT after the question was edited to display a non-flat directory structure--

If you do not have foo.c and main.c in the same directory, there is a bit more work involved. In toplevel/Makefile.am:

# You must list lib_foo first
SUBDIRS = lib_foo main

in lib_foo/Makefile.am

noinst_LIBRARIES = libfoo.a
libfoo_a_SOURCES = foo.c

and in main/Makefile.am

bin_PROGRAMS = main
main_LDADD = ../lib_foo/libfoo.a

Upvotes: 3

jørgensen
jørgensen

Reputation: 10551

Compiled programs are never distributed, but the source to compiled programs is of course generally distributed. (There would not be much point in a source distribution without source, would it.) There is also nodist_*_SOURCES (cf. chapter 14.2 Fine-grained Distribution Control in the automake manual). Also note that BUILT_SOURCES is nodist by default unless overriden, e.g.

bin_PROGRAMS = foo
nodist_foo_SOURCES = foo.c
BUILT_SOURCES = foo.c

but:

bin_PROGRAMS = foo
foo_SOURCES = foo.c
BUILT_SOURCES = foo.h

Upvotes: 1

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