Hi Craig,
thanks for the tip.
My use case is specifically with external projects producing files that I don't
know about in advance, so I thought OBJECT_DEPENDS wouldn't really work. But
then I realised that if I can extract the name of the "done" stamp, this would
do the trick.
So I end up with an external project declaration something like this:
ExternalProject_Add(foo URL foo.tgz
BUILD_COMMAND make -C <SOURCE_DIR> all
INSTALL_COMMAND make -C <SOURCE_DIR> install
)
_ep_get_step_stampfile(foo "done" foo_done_stamp_file)
add_library(libfoo INTERFACE IMPORTED)
add_dependencies(libfoo foo)
set_target_properties(libfoo PROPERTIES
INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/include)
And then simply a project declaration like this:
project(bar)
set_source_files_properties(bar.c OBJECT_DEPENDS ${foo_done_stamp_file})
add_executable(bar bar.c)
target_link_libraries(bar libfoo)
And very happily, it doesn't try to compile bar.c until the "foo" external
project has been installed. It's unfortunate to have to use an internal
ExternalProject function but AFAICT this is the best way without repeating
logic to get the complete filepath of the stamp.
Thanks again,
W
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From: Craig Scott [[email protected]]
Sent: 07 December 2017 19:50
To: Wouter Klouwen
Cc: CMake Developers
Subject: Re: [cmake-developers] Source file dependencies
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Have a look at the documentation for the OBJECT_DEPENDS source
property<https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/prop_sf/OBJECT_DEPENDS.html>,
which explains some options that may be relevant for your question.
On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 5:08 AM, Wouter Klouwen
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi all,
In trying to improve our build rules, one of the problems I encountered
is that I effectively have some source files that cannot be compiled
unless certain targets are run.
I noticed that cmSourceFile has the AddDepend() method, which looks to
do the kind of thing that I want to do.
cmFlTKWrapUICommand and cmCPluginAPI are the only users of this, with
there being no way of setting this from a CMakeLists.txt.
The former seems to do exactly the kind of think that I need, which is
to set up some code generation.
It would be nice if I could add items to this list, perhaps through
setting a property on the source files themselves, e.g this rather
contrived short example:
add_custom_command(OUTPUT bar.h COMMAND touch bar.h)
add_custom_target(bar DEPENDS generate_bar bar.h)
set_source_files_properties(foo.cpp PROPERTIES DEPENDS bar)
Is this a bad idea? Would there be a better way?
Thanks,
W
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