I have a shared library Main.so that publicly links against couple of open source and other static libraries publicly.

What I want to do is privately link all static libraries to shared library and control what symbols gets exposed and allow headers from these transitive static libraries be consumable by application/library linking against shared library

Is this possible?

Any example would be great

Here is roughly what i want to do

  add_library(Shared SHARED shared.cpp)
  add_library(Static STATIC1 static1.cpp)
  add_library(Static STATIC2 static2.cpp)
  add_library(Static STATIC3 static3.cpp)
  include(GenerateExportHeader)
  generate_export_header(Shared SHARED_NAME MY_SHARED)
  target_link_libraries(Shared PRIVATE Static1 Static2 Static3)
 
  add_executable(app app.cpp)
  # app should be able to use headers/symbols from 
  # STATIC 1,2,3 as they were part of shared 
  # library
  target_link_libraries(app Shared)