Hi Arnaldo, On 6/2/21 6:48 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 11:26:24AM +0530, Deepak Kumar Mishra escreveu: >> added a section in README to give details about use of -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS >> cmake option and existing documentation reformatted to accomodate this. > > So are you changing the default to build as static? Please keep the > existing default and make building statically the opt-in mode, ok? > As per Cmake documentation if -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS is present and true, cmake will cause all libraries to be built shared. https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/BUILD_SHARED_LIBS.html If you still suggest, I can override the default behavior to SHARED and only when -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF is provided, it will make STATIC. Kindly confirm. -Deepak > - Arnaldo > >> Signed-off-by: Deepak Kumar Mishra <deepakkumar.mishra@xxxxxxx> >> --- >> README | 13 +++++++++++-- >> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/README b/README >> index 576cd42..40ca984 100644 >> --- a/README >> +++ b/README >> @@ -6,8 +6,17 @@ Build instructions: >> 4. cmake -D__LIB=lib .. >> 5. make install >> >> -Default is to install to /usr/local, use -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX= >> -when invoking cmake to specify another install location. >> +cmake Options: >> + -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS >> + By default STATIC libraries are created and applications are linked to it. >> + use -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON while invoking cmake to create SHARED libraries >> + and link applications to it. >> + >> + Ex. cmake -D__LIB=lib -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON .. >> + >> + -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX >> + Default is to install to /usr/local, use -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX= >> + when invoking cmake to specify another install location. >> >> Known to work scenarios: >> >> -- >> 2.17.1 >> >
