The proper way of forcing a 32-bit compile using CMake
Sorry that there are many similar questions, but I do find that Googling for CMake queries always yields similar-but-not-the-same scenarios, conflicting CMake commands and so on!
I need to force my project to build 32-bit binaries because I have to link with a library which is only available as 32-bit. I diagnosed this based on error messages such as:
/usr/bin/ld: i386 architecture of input file `*external-32bit-lib*' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
From what I gather, I should therefore use:
set (CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-m32")
This does change things - I now get several errors like:
/usr/bin/ld: i386 architecture of input file `*project-output-lib*' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
AND still get the same errors for the external library too. I think this is because the -m32 made gcc generate 32-bit binaries, but ld is still trying for 64-bit output? Further Googling for this problem didn't give any success, so if anyone could verify that I am right and give the correct way of doing this, I would be very grateful!
Many thanks!
Answer
If you want to compile and link for 32 bit using cmake use this for creating libraries and binaries:
Creating libraries:
add_library(mylib SHARED my_source.c)
set_target_properties(mylib PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-m32" LINK_FLAGS "-m32")
creating executables:
add_executable(mybin sources.c)
set_target_properties(mybin PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-m32" LINK_FLAGS "-m32")