platform-independent build settings for shared libs?

[amwink]

I'm building some shared libraries in Linux, the first versions of which I made in Windows. Their project settings are fairly minimal, I'm using the CodeLite Makefile generator and the Output File was set as lib$(ProjectName).dll.

In Linux the output file should be lib$(ProjectName).so. Would it be possible to make some sort of conditional environment variable $(SharedLibExt) that is set to .dll on Windows and .so on Linux?

I'm not quite sure how libraries like OpenBLAS do this, but I guess it's a function in CMake. In CodeLite, its own makefile generator is ever so slightly easier to work with though, so if it can be done without CMake that would be great.

[Jarod42]

Alternatively, premake allows to generate stand-alone native Codelite workspace (and it supports natively shared library extension).

[amwink]

Interesting! And could I then make a .project file that would work in CodeLite? or would I need to use premake to make the project files work?

[Jarod42]

By stand-alone, I mean that Premake is unneeded once you have generated the workspace (contrary to CMake which is intrusive and do the build).