Hi, I have a project with two libraries exposing different levels of detail to the user, basically one provides (C++) base classes with some functionality, and the other one provides classes derived from those with the actual implementation.
Since the latter is going to change often, I'd rather not expose the derived interface to anyone who doesn't need it, to save me from rebuilding and relinking all applications and bumping SONAME all of the time. Now, the two libraries, let's call them libbase and libderived, have mutual references: libbase needs to call into libderived to construct the actual object, and libderived needs to call into libbase for functions that are implemented in the base classes but called from the derived ones. The desired result is that applications that are content with the base interface can link against libbase and ignore libderived, and applications that require full access to the derived interface link against both libraries. When the derived interface changes, I can then bump the SONAME of libderived, and rebuild libbase and all apps that directly link against libderived, and get back to a consistent set. Is something like this possible using libtool, and if so, can it be done portably? Simon
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