Teach the Windows-GNU.cmake platform file to look for Visual Studio
tools matching the target ABI. Add an extra step to the link command
for shared libraries and executables that export symbols and on which a
new GNUtoMS property is set (initialized by the CMAKE_GNUtoMS option).
Tell the GNU linker to output a module definition (.def) file listing
exported symbols in addition to the GNU-format import library (.dll.a).
Pass the .def file to the MS "lib" tool to construct a MS-format DLL
import library (.lib).
Teach the install(TARGETS) command to install the MS import library next
to the GNU one. Teach the install(EXPORT) and export() command to set
the IMPORTED_IMPLIB property pointing at the import library to use the
import library matching the tools in the importing project.
86cb17b Pass include directories with response files to GNU on Windows
9a0b9bc Optionally pass include directories with response files
6e8a67f Generate target-wide flags before individual build rules
d099546 Factor old-style -D flags out from -I flag generation
The GNU 4.x toolchain on MinGW (and therefore MSYS) allows compiler
options to be passed via response files. Use this to pass include
directory -I options. This allows the include file search path to be
very long despite shell and mingw32-make command line length limits.
Commit 6a61a8a5 (Honor module .def files with MinGW tools, 2011-02-21)
set CMAKE_LINK_DEF_FILE_FLAG to "-Wl," to enable passing .def files to
the linker on MinGW. However, older GNU tools in the MSYS shell do not
know how to translate "-Wl,/c/..." to "c:/..." and complain that the
file does not exist. Instead set the flag to just "" which tells CMake
it can pass the file through the front-end with no special flag.
Since commit 024d05ad (Fix use of module .def files for MS tools,
2009-09-29) module .def files work for any platform that sets
CMAKE_LINK_DEF_FILE_FLAG correctly. Set it in the Windows-GNU platform
information file to enable support with MinGW tools. Also enable the
test added by commit 0db2c850 (Test use of module .def files for MS
tools, 2009-09-29) for MinGW and MSYS generators.
Use a combination of response files and the archiver to support long
object file lists that do not fit in the Windows command-line length
limit. This can work only with GCC >= 4 because the MinGW GCC 3.x
front-ends do not support response-file syntax.
Commit "Modernize GNU compiler info on Windows" (2009-12-02) reorganized
GNU flags on Windows but let -fPIC slip through for compilation of
objects in shared libraries. While this flag is valid on most GNU
compiler platforms we need to suppress it in Windows-GNU.cmake just as
we already do in CYGWIN-GNU.cmake.
This moves GNU compiler info on Windows into new-style modules
Platform/Windows-GNU-<lang>.cmake
using language-independent helper module
Platform/Windows-GNU.cmake
to define macros consolidating the information.
Brad King
Bill Hoffman
Todd Gamblin