[question] Linking all libs in path

[nkindt]

What is your question?

I have a big project with another huge project (llvm) embedded as a sub folder which after compilation amounts to over 500 static library files. I already export everything as needed to conan cache and would like to just tell conan to link all libs in my ${prefix}/lib path by specifying the path with a wildcard. In other words i would like it to provide all libs, i.e.:

/path/to/lib/folder/*.a

How could i achieve this?

Have you read the CONTRIBUTING guide?

• I've read the CONTRIBUTING guide

[franramirez688]

Hi @nkindt,

I assume you're exporting that big project and its libraries through a conanfile. It's quite recommended to declare one library per component, but I think that, as a workaround, you could declare in your big-project-conanfile something like this:

from glob import glob
import os

# ....

def package_info(self):
    self.cpp_info.libs = glob(os.path.join(self.package_folder, "lib", "*.a"))

Then, whenever you consume that one, all the libraries will be there without mentioning each one.

I assume you're exporting that big project and its libraries through a conanfile.

If that's not the case, please, tell me more about how you're exporting that one and how you're trying to consume its libraries (your conanfile.py).

[nkindt]

I assume you're exporting that big project and its libraries through a conanfile

It's a project with a conanfile.py and various third_party folder dependencies that are not. All the dependencies are already copied correctly to the cache and another project including it compiles just fine, it's the linker that is giving troubles.

I will spend some time testing this out. Thank you!

[valgur]

There's also collect_libs() that you might find useful.