Hello cmake-developers,

I’m trying to find a solution to a long running problem in our build. In LLVM 
we have a domain specific language named TableGen that we use to generate 
header files used throughout the project. Our current solution to work with 
this tool in CMake is pretty terrible for a number of reasons.

The biggest problem is that we don’t have good dependency handling around the 
inputs and outputs from the DSL. Some of this is caused by our CMake targets 
not being granular (which I know how to fix). The harder part is that our DSL 
supports C-like includes.

Our DSL compiler can generate .d files, but hooking that up to CMake is a 
harder problem. My thought was to try and treat TableGen as a language. There 
are some complications with that because we don’t actually have a compiler for 
it at configuration time.

Any thoughts and guidance would be greatly appreciated. I feel as if I’m about 
to fall into a deep and scary rabbit hole.

Thanks,
-Chris
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