Cmake linux shared library code#

Cmake linux shared library code#

to share code among programs) gets completely bypassed and we end up with several copies of these all over the build directory. This feels kind of stupid as the main benefit of shared libraries (i.e. GTest and GMock) to the module's build directory.

However, if both GTest and GMock were also built as shared libraries, this won't work as they need to be also loaded. An obvious solution is to set the test's working directory to the library's directory, using CMake's `set_property`. The thing is, if these libraries are shared, the loader needs of course to find them.

every directory under `tests`) is an executable, we need to link the latter with the former. Now well, if these modules are libraries and every test (i.e. This is, of course, an oversimplified situation, but you get the idea. Further suppose the structure of our project looks like this: Suppose we're working on a C++ project, using CMake to drive the build/testing/packaging process, and GTest and GMock for testing. Taking into account that this community is filled with people with plenty of experience (eager to share some of it, hopefully), it felt right to ask for advice here. StackOverflow was the first option that came to my mind, but the more I thought about it the more I realized that many of the answers I could receive would be regarded as opinion-driven, and therefore it wouldn't fit well into their Q&A standards. Both the situation I'm about to describe and the questions I have about it aren't strictly related to OGRE, but to program design.