Allow OBJECT libraries to be installed, exported, and imported

Teach install() and export() to handle the actual object files.
Disallow this on Xcode with multiple architectures because it
still cannot be cleanly supported there.

Co-Author: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Tests/ExportImport/Import/A/CMakeLists.txt b/Tests/ExportImport/Import/A/CMakeLists.txt
index 5ce9628..01960ea 100644
--- a/Tests/ExportImport/Import/A/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Tests/ExportImport/Import/A/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -228,6 +228,16 @@ target_link_libraries(imp_lib1 exp_testLib2)
 add_library(imp_lib1b STATIC imp_lib1.c)
 target_link_libraries(imp_lib1b bld_testLib2)
 
+if(NOT CMAKE_GENERATOR STREQUAL "Xcode" OR NOT CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES MATCHES "[;$]")
+  # Create a executable that is using objects imported from the install tree
+  add_executable(imp_testLib8 imp_testLib8.c $<TARGET_OBJECTS:exp_testLib8>)
+
+  if(NOT CMAKE_GENERATOR STREQUAL "Xcode" OR NOT XCODE_VERSION VERSION_LESS 5)
+    # Create a executable that is using objects imported from the build tree
+    add_executable(imp_testLib8b imp_testLib8.c $<TARGET_OBJECTS:bld_testLib8>)
+  endif()
+endif()
+
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Test that handling imported targets, including transitive dependencies,
 # works in CheckFunctionExists (...and hopefully all other try_compile() checks
diff --git a/Tests/ExportImport/Import/A/imp_testLib8.c b/Tests/ExportImport/Import/A/imp_testLib8.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2749b17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/ExportImport/Import/A/imp_testLib8.c
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+
+int testLib8A(void);
+int testLib8B(void);
+
+int main()
+{
+  return (testLib8A() + testLib8B());
+}