1 # This function defines a linker script in place of the symlink traditionally
2 # created for shared libraries.
4 # More specifically, this function goes through the PUBLIC and INTERFACE
5 # library dependencies of <target> and gathers them into a linker script,
6 # such that those libraries are linked against when the shared library for
7 # <target> is linked against.
10 # <target>: A target representing a shared library. A linker script will be
11 # created in place of that target's TARGET_LINKER_FILE, which is
12 # the symlink pointing to the actual shared library (usually
13 # libFoo.so pointing to libFoo.so.1, which itself points to
16 function(define_linker_script target)
17 if (NOT TARGET "${target}")
18 message(FATAL_ERROR "The provided target '${target}' is not actually a target.")
21 get_target_property(target_type "${target}" TYPE)
22 if (NOT "${target_type}" STREQUAL "SHARED_LIBRARY")
23 message(FATAL_ERROR "The provided target '${target}' is not a shared library (its type is '${target_type}').")
26 set(symlink "$<TARGET_LINKER_FILE:${target}>")
27 set(soname "$<TARGET_SONAME_FILE_NAME:${target}>")
29 get_target_property(interface_libs "${target}" INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES)
33 foreach(lib IN LISTS interface_libs)
34 if ("${lib}" STREQUAL "cxx-headers")
37 # If ${lib} is not a target, we use a dummy target which we know will
38 # have an OUTPUT_NAME property so that CMake doesn't fail when evaluating
39 # the non-selected branch of the `IF`. It doesn't matter what it evaluates
40 # to because it's not selected, but it must not cause an error.
41 # See https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/21045.
42 set(output_name_tgt "$<IF:$<TARGET_EXISTS:${lib}>,${lib},${target}>")
43 set(libname "$<IF:$<TARGET_EXISTS:${lib}>,$<TARGET_PROPERTY:${output_name_tgt},OUTPUT_NAME>,${lib}>")
44 list(APPEND link_libraries "${CMAKE_LINK_LIBRARY_FLAG}${libname}")
47 string(REPLACE ";" " " link_libraries "${link_libraries}")
49 set(linker_script "INPUT(${soname} ${link_libraries})")
50 add_custom_command(TARGET "${target}" POST_BUILD
51 COMMAND "${CMAKE_COMMAND}" -E remove "${symlink}"
52 COMMAND "${CMAKE_COMMAND}" -E echo "${linker_script}" > "${symlink}"
53 COMMENT "Generating linker script: '${linker_script}' as file ${symlink}"