On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Łukasz Tasz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I have one issue with organising dependencies between projects. > > > I have three projects, > - first is application which contain static code of the application, > - second is library which is contain code for the library, > - third is library which generates the source code and headers, and > provide library. > > First project is link against static library, and generated library. > Generated headers from third project are used by first and second > project. > > the application project looks like (in a hudge simplification): > project(application) > add_subdirectory(librarygen) > add_subdirectory(library) > > > add_executable(application sources1..x) > > > My question is what is the common practice of creating dependencies? > e.g library project is not aware about how to generate the headers, > generated makefiles will try to run generation of librarygen and > compilation library at the same time, since it is wrong > > the situation is changing when I manualy specify dependencies: > add_dependencies(library librarygen) > > Is there any other mechanism inside cmake to manage dependencies > between cmake projects to files that will be generated? > What is the common practice with code generation? > > thanks in advance, > Lukasz > > -- > Lukasz Tasz > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake > add_dependencies(library librarygen) is the common practice when custom inter-dependent steps are spread across multiple directories. HTH, David
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