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Mike Zinni
04/15/2008 2:56 PM
post6820
Project variants for building both libraries and applications?   
Is it possible to configure a QNX C/C++ project to have 2 variants: one that outputs a shared library, and one that 
outputs an application?

Here's what I'd like to do: In projects that output shared libraries, I'd like to have one variant that compiles test 
code for that library into a runnable executable. So, for every library project, have the 2 usual variants (debug & 
release) and another variant that can execute tests on the code in the library.

A co-worker and I took a crack at this earlier and didn't have much success. Any ideas?
Aleksandar Ristovski(deleted)
04/15/2008 3:01 PM
post6821
Re: Project variants for building both libraries and applications ?   
I am not sure if you can easily do that, but here is an idea on how you 
could (maybe) organize your projects:

project a: most of your source that can be tested, you generate static 
library (*.a) here
project b: your executable - your application that links .a library above
project c: your test application - links static lib. from project a) and 
tests the code.
Mike Zinni
04/15/2008 3:24 PM
post6822
Re: Project variants for building both libraries and applications   
Yea, we've got it broken down into 2 projects right now (1 for the library code, 1 for the test code application), and 
it seems to be working out alright. That being said, having it all in one project is a more ideal case for a few reasons
 (less projects in the workspace, no need to download rebuilt shared libs to target, etc)... 

Any chance something like this could get rolled into a later revision?
Alex Chapiro
04/16/2008 6:52 AM
post6870
Re: Project variants for building both libraries and applications   
Mike Zinni wrote:
>
> Yea, we've got it broken down into 2 projects right now (1 for the 
> library code, 1 for the test code application), and it seems to be 
> working out alright. That being said, having it all in one project is 
> a more ideal case for a few reasons (less projects in the workspace, 
> no need to download rebuilt shared libs to target, etc)...
>
> Any chance something like this could get rolled into a later revision?
>
> _______________________________________________
> General
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post6 
> <http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post6822>;
>


Technically it is possible to implement (you know, make supports more 
than one target :-) But I cannot promise we will do it soon because 
there have been  no requests on that so far.

Regards,
Alex
Mike Zinni
04/16/2008 9:59 AM
post6903
RE: Project variants for building both libraries and applications   
Yea, I know we can play with make, and we have, but all attempts have
crashed and burned so far. We got close, but no cigar. That's why I was
calling in the big guns, aka you guys... 

If any of you guys have a spare minute, a sample project showing us
n00bs how to do it correctly would be uber-helpful...

Thanks,

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Chapiro [mailto:achapiro@qnx.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:52 AM
To: general-ide
Subject: Re: Project variants for building both libraries and
applications

Mike Zinni wrote:
>
> Yea, we've got it broken down into 2 projects right now (1 for the 
> library code, 1 for the test code application), and it seems to be 
> working out alright. That being said, having it all in one project is 
> a more ideal case for a few reasons (less projects in the workspace, 
> no need to download rebuilt shared libs to target, etc)...
>
> Any chance something like this could get rolled into a later revision?
>
> _______________________________________________
> General
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post6 
> <http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post6822>;
>


Technically it is possible to implement (you know, make supports more 
than one target :-) But I cannot promise we will do it soon because 
there have been  no requests on that so far.

Regards,
Alex

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