Many projects put their project() call first, but the actions taken
by this command can be influenced by policies and other information
set by a call to cmake_minimum_required. Document in each of these
two commands that cmake_minimum_required should be called first.
Suggested-by: Alan W. Irwin
882f48e5 Link libraries by full path even in implicit directories
318cd370 Help: Add link target for Find Modules section of cmake-developer.7
1535dcd8 Tests: Teach RunCMake to optionally merge command output to stdout
When CMP0003 was first introduced we wanted to link all libraries by
full path. However, some projects had problems on platforms where
find_library would find /usr/lib/libfoo.so when the project really
wanted to link to /usr/lib/<arch>/libfoo.so and had been working by
accident because pre-CMP0003 behavior used -lfoo to link.
We first tried to address that in commit v2.6.0~440 (Teach find_library
to avoid returning library paths in system directories, 2008-01-23) by
returning just "foo" for libraries in implicit link directories. This
caused problems for projects expecting find_library to always return a
full path. We ended up using the solution in commit v2.6.0~366 (...
switch library paths found in implicit link directories to use -l,
2008-01-31). However, the special case for libraries in implicit link
directories has also proven problematic and confusing.
Introduce policy CMP0060 to switch to linking all libraries by full path
even if they are in implicit link directories. Explain in the policy
documentation the factors that led to the original approach and now to
this approach.
If the CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR variable is defined, and
CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING is TRUE, then use CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR to run
the try_run executables. This prevents the need to populate
TryRunResults.cmake when cross compiling.
Extend sentences in other documentation linking to this manual to
say that it has a list of supported compilers.
Co-Author: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
6f82b5e8 Help: Link to properties in set_tests_properties.
66f5af29 Help: Link to properties in set_directory_properties docs.
f7dd3f7c Help: Add link in set_source_files_properties command docs.
3b256173 Help: Shorten too-long title marker.
8fc3a2fb Help: Add references to cmake-property sections.
Organize the documentation into subsections to separate the signatures.
Refactor the discussion of allowed link items into bullet points and
expand into more detail on each.
3af13782 Help: Update discussion of relocable packages in cmake-packages(7)
227992c3 Help: Reorganize and refine discussion of relocatable packages
031d894f Help: Place relocatable package notes in their own subsections
6e331ce9 Help: Fix typo in cmake-packages(7) manual
ba9b9d79 Help: Fix syntax in non-relocatable usage requirements example
These notes apply only for the use case of creating a package for
redistribution on machines other than that where it is built. Clarify
this to readers by placing the discussion in dedicated sections titled
accordingly.
Much of the information in the old set() command documentation is now
covered in the cmake-language(7) manual. Rewrite the documentation
with this in mind. Split up the signatures for each kind of variable
into different subsections.
Revert commit v3.0.0-rc1~175^2~20 (add_dependencies: Disallow use with
INTERFACE_LIBRARY, 2013-12-25). Teach our dependency analysis to
transitively follow INTERFACE target utility dependencies as was done or
IMPORTED targets in commit v2.8.6~127^2~1 (Allow add_dependencies() on
imported targets, 2010-11-19). Extend the InterfaceLibrary test with a
case to cover header generation for a header-only INTERFACE library via
a custom target.
GLOB lists directories by default and GLOB_RECURSE does not.
LIST_DIRECTORIES enables user to control the behavior explicitly for
consistently for both GLOB and GLOB_RECURSE.
The find_package command already knows how to compute installation
prefixes from PATH. Use the same approach to establish prefixes for
find_library, find_file, and find_path to use to look in directories
like "<prefix>/lib[/<arch>]" and "<prefix>/include" for libraries and
headers. This will reduce the amount of configuration end users need to
do to establish a work environment rooted under a specific prefix.
This will allow per-config destinations for targets in EXPORT sets.
Using multiple install(TARGETS) with separate CONFIGURATIONS is
rejected as a target appearing more than once in an export set.
Now instead one can write
install(TARGETS foo EXPORT exp DESTINATION lib/$<CONFIG>)
to get a single logical membership of the target in the export set
while still having a per-config destination.
d0adcccb try_run: Add tests for LINK_LIBRARIES with mock libraries.
223c5cb7 try_run: Add test for bad link libraries.
e2b1f058 try_run: Add support for LINK_LIBRARIES option.
Most functionality is already implemented in Source/cmCoreTryCompile.{h,cxx}.
Document and improve argument parsing.
This functionality is already being used by a number of modules, like
CheckCSourceCompiles.cmake, but it is not documented.
The command has been documented as 'deprecated', but it is not really
slated for removal and can still be used. Clarify this in the
documentation. While at it, revise the documentation to use wording
more consistent with that now in target_link_libraries.
Suggested-by: Christoph Grüninger <foss@grueninger.de>
This adds support for the new cdash API where arbitrary files can be
uploaded to the CDash server. This CDash API communicates via json
files so the json parser jsoncpp was added to the Utilities directory.
In commit v3.1.0-rc1~484^2 (Help: Format and revise file() command
documentation, 2014-05-23) the signature of file(GENERATE) was
accidentally simplified too much and dropped specification of the
required argument ordering. Restore the signature to make the order
clear.
Provide options to fail without blocking or to block up to a timeout.
Provide options to specify the scope containing the lock so it can be
released automatically at the end of a function, file, or process.
Extend the RunCMake.file test with cases covering the file(LOCK) command
usage and error cases.
8a75c7ef Help: Document the export limitation of INTERFACE_SOURCES.
e1348056 Export: Disallow export of targets with INTERFACE_SOURCES
bb5905bb cmTarget: Don't allow relative paths in INTERFACE_SOURCES
Since commit v3.1.0-rc1~479^2~1 (Add an "installed file" property
scope, 2014-05-15) the get_property and set_property commands
support an 'INSTALL' scope. Add documentation for this scope.
bb1111ea Help: Warn that paths should not be used in INTERFACE_ build properties.
96691d12 Help: Fix typo in genex in documentation.
f8f02451 Help: Use a property-specific command instead of the generic one.
8609a884 Help: Make remaining build property docs consistent.
bcface39 Help: Link to target_link_libraries from target properies.
e12926e7 Help: Format the LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES target properies.
c8540e94 Help: Unify the help text of INTERFACE_ build properties.
Since commit v2.8.11~227^2~1 (Don't allow targets args in the new target
commands, 2013-01-29) the target_include_directories command does not
support target names on the right hand side, but that commit forgot to
remove it from the docs. It was never released with such support.
Update the command documentation now.
2d75d7e5 Help: Add notes for topic 'console-pool'
f42d86f0 Ninja: Implement USES_TERMINAL using the console pool if available
f281ae01 Ninja: Remove unused declaration
d5eae556 Ninja: factor out the test for console pool support
4d1fedf4 Give the interactive cache editor the USES_TERMINAL property
fe5d6e8c Add USES_TERMINAL option for custom commands
ad6ee426 Rename doing_verbatim to doing_nothing
A common idiom in CMake-based build systems is to have custom commands
that generate files not listed explicitly as outputs so that these
files do not have to be newer than the inputs. The file modification
times of such "byproducts" are updated only when their content changes.
Then other build rules can depend on the byproducts explicitly so that
their dependents rebuild when the content of the original byproducts
really does change.
This "undeclared byproduct" approach is necessary for Makefile, VS, and
Xcode build tools because if a byproduct were listed as an output of a
rule then the rule would always rerun when the input is newer than the
byproduct but the byproduct may never be updated.
Ninja solves this problem by offering a 'restat' feature to check
whether an output was really modified after running a rule and tracking
the fact that it is up to date separately from its timestamp. However,
Ninja also stats all dependencies up front and will only restat files
that are listed as outputs of rules with the 'restat' option enabled.
Therefore an undeclared byproduct that does not exist at the start of
the build will be considered missing and the build will fail even if
other dependencies would cause the byproduct to be available before its
dependents build.
CMake works around this limitation by adding 'phony' build rules for
custom command dependencies in the build tree that do not have any
explicit specification of what produces them. This is not optimal
because it prevents Ninja from reporting an error when an input to a
rule really is missing. A better approach is to allow projects to
explicitly specify the byproducts of their custom commands so that no
phony rules are needed for them. In order to work with the non-Ninja
generators, the byproducts must be known separately from the outputs.
Add a new "BYPRODUCTS" option to the add_custom_command and
add_custom_target commands to specify byproducts explicitly. Teach the
Ninja generator to specify byproducts as outputs of the custom commands.
In the case of POST_BUILD, PRE_LINK, and PRE_BUILD events on targets
that link, the byproducts must be specified as outputs of the link rule
that runs the commands. Activate 'restat' for such rules so that Ninja
knows it needs to check the byproducts, but not for link rules that have
no byproducts.
Teach the add_custom_command and add_custom_target commands a new
USES_TERMINAL option. Use it to tell the generator to give the command
direct access to the terminal if possible.
Format the reStructuredText markup manually. Organize the command
options into a definition list. Use inline markup to cross-reference
related documents.
string SUBSTRING command now ignores length if it points
past end of string and uses end of string instead.
String SUBSTRING tests now cover more corner cases.
Ben Boeckel
Brad King
Nils Gladitz
Matt McCormick
Robert Maynard
Stephen Kelly
Domen Vrankar
Daniele E. Domenichelli
Zack Galbreath
Justin Borodinsky
Bill Hoffman
Gregor Jasny
Ruslan Baratov
Peter Collingbourne