Jesper Eskilson wrote: > Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> On 9/4/07, Jesper Eskilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> I've got a Visual Studio 8 solution generated by CMake where one of the >>> projects is always being relinked everytime I build it, even when >>> nothing in it has changed (i.e. if I try to build it twice, it always >>> relinks the project the second time). >>> >>> I've studied the build logs, but they do not make me any wiser. >>> >>> Does anyone recognize this behavior? >> >> >> <wild guess> >> Circular dependencie ? >> </wild guess> >> >> I am not sure if outputing the depencie graph with graphiz could show >> that, since it only output high level dep (libs/executable) > > I think I've located the problem. The project in question uses > target_link_library() in a possibly non-kosher way: > > target_link_library(Foo Bar.lib) > > That is, the top-level target Foo should include "Bar.lib" on its > command line. This seems to work insofar that it actually performs the > link correctly, but for some reason it always relinks as well. > > A related question: if I include an external project in my solution using > > include_external_msproject(Bar ../../Bar/Bar.vcproj) > > can I later refer to this project using > > target_link_libraries(Foo Bar) > > More generally, what is the correct way to specify that a CMake target > should be linked with some external library? >
I'm still very much interested in an answer to this question. -- /Jesper -- /Jesper _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list [email protected] http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
