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<div>Hello,</div>
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<div>Does CMake guarantee that the order of the libraries passed into target_link_libraries(...) is preserved on the actual link line?</div>
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<div>For example, If I have:</div>
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<div> target_link_libraries(sometarget lib1 lib2 lib3 ...)</div>
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<div>does CMake guarantee that the link line will have the ordering:</div>
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<div> g++ ... -llib1 -llib2 -llib3 ...</div>
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<div>?</div>
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<div>This is the behavior that I am seeing in the CMake version that I am using but there is no mention of this in the documentation for target_link_libraries(...) at:</div>
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<div> <a href="http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake2.6docs.html#command:target_link_libraries"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake2.6docs.html#command:target_link_libraries</u></font></a></div>
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<div>This is important because I have some arbitrary third partly libraries and some of them have some internal dependencies. I am happy to list these in the right order in one place to take are of the dependency ordering.</div>
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<div>I am nervous to rely on the ordering that I am seeing without some assurance that this ordering is guaranteed.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>- Ross</div>
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