add versioning to shared libs

[jonathanspw]

I'm not sure what you have planned for ABI/API compatibility so versioning it to major.minor might be more appropriate than just major.

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[horenmar]

ABI stability: NOPE API stability: semver (modulo bugs and Hyrum's law)

[dimztimz]

Becauase there is no ABI stability whatsoever, SOVERSION should contain all three parts of the version i.e. SOVERSION should be the same with PROJECT_VERSION.

[jonathanspw]

So even minor versions will potentially change ABI?

That's pretty contradictory to how most ABI versioning works. Can ABI stability be maintained within X.X releases so that x.x.X can be considered bugfix only, or at least non-breaking?

[horenmar]

So even minor versions will potentially change ABI?

Yes. Catch2 is meant to be used as a static library. As such, it should not be installed globally and ABI stability is a non-concern.

For various reasons, we also support building it as a dynamic library, but there is a number of limitations to it, e.g. symbols are exported only implicitly. Providing ABI stability is a maintenance cost I am not willing to pay.

[jonathanspw]

Thanks for the tweaks and getting this merged!