Re: [Avogadro-devel] CMake, CTest, and AVOGADRO_PLUGIN

[David L. <lon...@gm...>]

Hi Marcus,

>> to try linking the xtalopt.so file, but this didn't work, as CMake
>> sees xtalopt as a "module", and not a "shared library", though AFAIK
>> these are the same on linux, correct?
>
> They are the same on Linux, and so if I were you I would probably explore
> making it shared. We did this for quite a while in Avogadro before I changed
> it to module (as that is what a plugin is).

I copied avogadro_plugin into my CMakeLists.txt and changed MODULE to
SHARED, ran all the extension sources through it, then linked the
plugin target to the test target -- works a treat!

> You ran into the automoc/wrap_cpp logic too - I should harmonize that. The
> advantage of wrap_cpp is that it generates a list of moc source files, and you
> can use the build system to link them in. With automoc it guesses what the file
> should be called, and then creates it.
>
> Essentially they both do the same thing in the end, one passes extra source
> files into the build system, the other requires a direct include in your source
> file.

Ah, ok. That clears up some of my questions about that.

Thanks,

Dave