"ld: unknown option: -soname" on OS X

Question

I try to build my app with CMake on Mac OS X, I get the following error:

Linking CXX shared library libsml.so
ld: unknown option: -soname
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [libsml.so] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/sml.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

This is strange, as Mac has .dylib extension instead of .so.

There's my CMakeLists.txt:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)

PROJECT (SilentMedia)

SET(SourcePath src/libsml)

IF (DEFINED OSS)
SET(OSS_src
    ${SourcePath}/Media/Audio/SoundSystem/OSS/DSP/DSP.cpp
    ${SourcePath}/Media/Audio/SoundSystem/OSS/Mixer/Mixer.cpp
)
ENDIF(DEFINED OSS)

IF (DEFINED ALSA)
SET(ALSA_src
    ${SourcePath}/Media/Audio/SoundSystem/ALSA/DSP/DSP.cpp
    ${SourcePath}/Media/Audio/SoundSystem/ALSA/Mixer/Mixer.cpp
)
ENDIF(DEFINED ALSA)

SET(SilentMedia_src

    ${SourcePath}/Utils/Base64/Base64.cpp
    ${SourcePath}/Utils/String/String.cpp
    ${SourcePath}/Utils/Random/Random.cpp

    ${SourcePath}/Media/Container/FileLoader.cpp

    ${SourcePath}/Media/Container/OGG/OGG.cpp

    ${SourcePath}/Media/PlayList/XSPF/XSPF.cpp
    ${SourcePath}/Media/PlayList/XSPF/libXSPF.cpp
    ${SourcePath}/Media/PlayList/PlayList.cpp

    ${OSS_src}
    ${ALSA_src}

    ${SourcePath}/Media/Audio/Audio.cpp
    ${SourcePath}/Media/Audio/AudioInfo.cpp
    ${SourcePath}/Media/Audio/AudioProxy.cpp

    ${SourcePath}/Media/Audio/SoundSystem/SoundSystem.cpp
    ${SourcePath}/Media/Audio/SoundSystem/libao/AO.cpp

    ${SourcePath}/Media/Audio/Codec/WAV/WAV.cpp
    ${SourcePath}/Media/Audio/Codec/Vorbis/Vorbis.cpp
    ${SourcePath}/Media/Audio/Codec/WavPack/WavPack.cpp
    ${SourcePath}/Media/Audio/Codec/FLAC/FLAC.cpp
)

SET(SilentMedia_LINKED_LIBRARY
    sml
    vorbisfile
    FLAC++
    wavpack
    ao
    #asound
    boost_thread-mt
    boost_filesystem-mt
    xspf
    gtest
)

INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(
    /usr/include
    /usr/local/include
    /usr/include/c++/4.4
    /Users/alex/Downloads/boost_1_45_0
    ${SilentMedia_SOURCE_DIR}/src
    ${SilentMedia_SOURCE_DIR}/${SourcePath}
)

#link_directories(
#   /usr/lib
#   /usr/local/lib
#   /Users/alex/Downloads/boost_1_45_0/stage/lib
#)

IF(LibraryType STREQUAL "static")
  ADD_LIBRARY(sml-static STATIC ${SilentMedia_src})
  # rename library from libsml-static.a => libsml.a
  SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(sml-static PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME "sml")
  SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(sml-static PROPERTIES CLEAN_DIRECT_OUTPUT 1)
ELSEIF(LibraryType STREQUAL "shared")
  ADD_LIBRARY(sml SHARED ${SilentMedia_src})

  # change compile optimization/debug flags # -Werror -pedantic
  IF(BuildType STREQUAL "Debug")
    SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(sml PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-pipe -Wall -W -ggdb")
  ELSEIF(BuildType STREQUAL "Release")
    SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(sml PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-pipe -Wall -W -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer")
  ENDIF()

  SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(sml PROPERTIES CLEAN_DIRECT_OUTPUT 1)
ENDIF()

### TEST ###

IF(Test STREQUAL "true")
  ADD_EXECUTABLE (bin/TestXSPF ${SourcePath}/Test/Media/PlayLists/XSPF/TestXSPF.cpp)
  TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES (bin/TestXSPF ${SilentMedia_LINKED_LIBRARY})

  ADD_EXECUTABLE (bin/test1 ${SourcePath}/Test/test.cpp)
  TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES (bin/test1 ${SilentMedia_LINKED_LIBRARY})

  ADD_EXECUTABLE (bin/TestFileLoader ${SourcePath}/Test/Media/Container/FileLoader/TestFileLoader.cpp)
  TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES (bin/TestFileLoader ${SilentMedia_LINKED_LIBRARY})

  ADD_EXECUTABLE (bin/testMixer ${SourcePath}/Test/testMixer.cpp)
  TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES (bin/testMixer ${SilentMedia_LINKED_LIBRARY})
ENDIF (Test STREQUAL "true")

### TEST ###

ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(doc COMMAND doxygen ${SilentMedia_SOURCE_DIR}/doc/Doxyfile)

There was no error on Linux.

Build process:

cmake -D BuildType=Debug -D LibraryType=shared .
make

I found, that incorrect command generate in CMakeFiles/sml.dir/link.txt. But why, as the goal of CMake is cross-platforming..

How to fix it?

Answer 1

I had a similar issue on OS X which I resolved using the the install_name switch instead of soname.

gcc -shared <files> -lc -Wl,-install_name,<libname>.so, -o <libname>.so.1

Answer 2

You cleared you're problem, but I wanted to provide this a s a reference for future visitors because there's a bit more to creating a dynamic library on OS X. Also see Creating Dynamic Libraries in the Apple Developer pages.

OS X does not use the convention libcoolstuff.so.X.Y.Z. OS X uses the convention libcoolstuff.X.dylib. The, to embed X.Y.Z into the library, use -install_name, -current_version and -compatibility_version.

I don't know Cmake, but here's how it looks under Make. Your recipe to build the libcoolstuff 1.0.6 will look like:

libcoolstuff libcoolstuff.dylib:
    $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -dynamiclib -install_name "libcoolstuff.1.dylib" \
    -current_version 1.0.6 -compatibility_version 1.0 -o libcoolstuff.1.dylib $(OBJS)

And your make install rule would look like:

PREFIX?=/usr/local
LIBDIR?=$(PREFIX)/lib
...

install:
    cp -f libcoolstuff.1.dylib $(LIBDIR)/libcoolstuff.1.dylib
    rm -f $(LIBDIR)/libcoolstuff.dylib
    ln -s $(LIBDIR)/libcoolstuff.1.dylib $(LIBDIR)/libcoolstuff.dylib
    install_name_tool -change "libcoolstuff.1.dylib" "$(LIBDIR)/libcoolstuff.1.dylib" $(LIBDIR)/libcoolstuff.1.dylib

Under otool, it looks like:

$ otool -L libcoolstuff.dylib 
libcoolstuff.dylib:
    libcoolstuff.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.6)
    /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
    /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 111.1.7)

Finally, you would use it as expected:

export CFLAGS="-NDEBUG -g2 -O2 -Wall -arch ppc -arch ppc64"
make
...

Answer 3

OK, I found where problem was. Before build, you have to remove all CMake temp folders and files, e.g. CMakeFiles, CMakeCache.txt, Makefile. As in my case, issue was that I built that project on Linux and didn't delete these files... That's why there's .so extension...

Answer 4

Had a problem with this myself. What fixed it for me was removing the commas and replacing -soname with -install_name