I would like to create a single library from objects from multiple sub-directories, each one containing their own CMakeLists.txt with OBJECT library trick to have multiple targets with different compile options.

Here are the files:

```
project_dir
|--- subdir1
|    |--- src1.c
|    |--- CMakeLists.txt
|--- subdir2
|    |--- src2.c
|    |--- CMakeLists.txt
|--- CMakeLists.txt

```

Contents of all CMakeLists.txt

```
// project_dir/CMakeLists.txt
// what to put here? to make one single library (mainLib)

// project_dir/subdir1/CMakeLists.txt
add_library(lib11 OBJECT src1.c)
set_target_properties(lib11 PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "some-flags11")

add_library(lib12 OBJECT src1.c)
set_target_properties(lib12 PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "some-flags12")
// here I would like to add lib11:objects and lib12:objects to mainLib
// how should it be done?

// project_dir/subdir2/CMakeLists.txt
// *** similar to subdir1 but with src2.c that creates lib21 and lib22
// here I would like to add lib21:objects and lib22:objects to mainLib
// how should it be done?

```

Can it be done platform independently? Thanks.

EDIT:
Based on [CMake: how create a single shared library from all static libraries of subprojects?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11429055), I can change the cmake files to the following, but still doesn't solve my problem.

```
// project_dir/subdir1/CMakeLists.txt
add_library(lib11 OBJECT src1.c)
set_target_properties(lib11 PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "some-flags11")

add_library(lib12 OBJECT src1.c)
set_target_properties(lib12 PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "some-flags12")

add_library(lib1 STATIC $<TARGET_OBJECTS:lib11> $<TARGET_OBJECTS:lib12>)

// Above add_library cannot be OBJECT which would fix my problem.
// how to append the lib1 (lib11 and lib12) to mainLib?

```

EDIT:
Updating my post with attempt to chain interface libraries as suggested in the answer.

```
add_library(lib11 OBJECT test1/sub1/src1.c)
set_target_properties(lib11 PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-DF1")

add_library(lib12 OBJECT test1/sub1/src1.c)
set_target_properties(lib12 PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-DF2")

add_library(lib1 INTERFACE)
target_sources(lib1 INTERFACE $<TARGET_OBJECTS:lib11>)
target_sources(lib1 INTERFACE $<TARGET_OBJECTS:lib12>)

add_library(lib21 OBJECT test1/sub2/src2.c)
set_target_properties(lib21 PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-DF1")

add_library(lib22 OBJECT test1/sub2/src2.c)
set_target_properties(lib22 PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-DF2")

add_library(lib2 INTERFACE)
target_sources(lib2 INTERFACE $<TARGET_OBJECTS:lib21>)
target_sources(lib2 INTERFACE $<TARGET_OBJECTS:lib22>)

add_library(PARENT INTERFACE)

target_link_libraries(PARENT INTERFACE lib1)
target_link_libraries(PARENT INTERFACE lib2)

add_library(CORE OBJECT src.c)
add_library(GPARENT STATIC $<TARGET_OBJECTS:CORE>)

target_link_libraries(GPARENT INTERFACE PARENT)

```