In CMake 3.0, the load_command command was deprecated. However, the
position of load_command in the help TOC was not fixed at that time:
it was still listed as a "Normal Command".
Improve formatting, primarily by:
* Adding links to relevant commands, properties, generators, and so on.
* Converting code, symbols, paths, and so on to fixed-width fonts.
* Hard wrapping lines to 80 characters or less.
In the get_filename_component command, add a new BASE_DIR parameter to
use with the ABSOLUTE and REALPATH options. This will be used when
finding an absolute path from a relative path.
Use the CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_START_STATIC and CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_END_STATIC
variables to initialize the LINK_SEARCH_START_STATIC and
LINK_SEARCH_END_STATIC target properties respectively.
If {ARCHIVE,LIBRARY,RUNTIME}_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY is set with a genex then
do not add the per-config subdirectory on multi-config generators.
This will allow projects to use $<CONFIG> to place the per-config
part of the directory path somewhere other than the end.
cc23f0e9 UseJava: Teach install_jar new DESTINATION and COMPONENT options
3d287de4 UseJava: Teach add_jar to support file syntax for sources
e72806fb FindJava: Add support for idlj and jarsigner tools
if(TEST TestNameThatExists) will return true if a test with the name
TestNameThatExists has been added with add_test. The syntax is similar
to if(TARGET TargetName). Since use of "TEST" as an argument to if()
could previously be interpreted as a non-keyword argument, add policy
CMP0064 to treat it as a keyword as NEW behavior.
Refactor the -Wdev and -Wno-dev to use a generic -W parser that follows
the GCC pattern. Include support for setting CMAKE_ERROR_DEPRECATED and
CMAKE_WARN_DEPRECATED via the deprecated warning. Add -Werror=dev and
-Wno-error=dev options so that dev warning options are in line with
deprecated warning options. Use a new CMAKE_SUPPRESS_DEVELOPER_ERRORS
internal cache entry to store the above new dev options persistently.
Add tests for new options and updated cmake documentation and release
notes to list new options.
The --trace option is helpful, but sometimes, what you're looking for is
deep under many layers of function calls and figuring out what instance
of the function call you're looking at is tedious to determine (usually
involving patching and message()). Instead, add a --trace-expand option
to trace while expanding commands into what CMake actually sees.
It costs an extra cmMakefile member and extra code to maintain in
directory property handling. Remove documentation note that it
is read-only and specify high-level command to populate it.
Add variable CTEST_CHANGE_ID to configure the setting. This allows
CTest clients to give CDash information about what change is being
tested so that CDash can take actions to report the results (e.g. to a
pull request page).
Drop the partial documentation of properties from the command
documentation and reference the main properties manual instead.
Otherwise readers may not realize there are many more properties.
Extend the Nsight Tegra project generator to add bunch of properties
with the backing variables to fine-tune the generated projects.
Add target properties that map to all "Configuration" PropertyGroups for
each configuration:
* ANDROID_ARCH
* ANDROID_STL_TYPE
Add target properties that map to the AntBuild section of vcxproj files:
* ANDROID_ANT_ADDITIONAL_OPTIONS
* ANDROID_ASSETS_DIRECTORIES
* ANDROID_JAR_DEPENDENCIES
* ANDROID_JAR_DIRECTORIES
* ANDROID_JAVA_SOURCE_DIR
* ANDROID_NATIVE_LIB_DEPENDENCIES
* ANDROID_NATIVE_LIB_DIRECTORIES
* ANDROID_PROCESS_MAX
* ANDROID_PROGUARD
* ANDROID_PROGUARD_CONFIG_PATH
* ANDROID_SECURE_PROPS_PATH
* ANDROID_SKIP_ANT_STEP
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Polyanitsa <dpolyanitsa@nvidia.com>
Add a TARGET_MESSAGES property to control whether Makefile targets print
the "Built target " completion messages. Default to ON to preserve
existing behavior.
8f86407c Windows: Optionally generate DLL module definition files automatically
069aa93b bindexplib: Add support for "/bigobj" format objects
61bbbdcf bindexplib: Fix treatment of some symbols
de70c922 bindexplib: Teach DumpFile to return errors
8ea69dfe bindexplib: Build source as part of CMakeLib
2963cb2a bindexplib: Wrap long lines
4ff09893 bindexplib: Drop code that CMake does not need
7de8276c bindexplib: Add copyright/license notice block
65086ad7 bindexplib: Import original implementation from CERN
Allow the `Swift` language to be enabled with the Xcode generator for
Xcode >= 6.1. Reject it on other generators and with older Xcode
versions. Since Apple is the only vendor implementing the language
right now, the compiler id can be just `Apple`.
Added new USES_TERMINAL option to the ExternalProject_Add_Step
function. This option passes USES_TERMINAL to the underlying
add_custom_command call so that the Ninja console pool is used.
Also, corresponding new USES_TERMINAL_<step> options were added
to the ExternalProject_Add function.
Justification: if using Ninja with a CMake superbuild, it's often
desirable to limit the superbuild to ONE sub-Ninja process at a
time to avoid oversubscribing the CPU. Using the console pool also
makes it easy to monitor the progress of the sub-Ninja process.
Independent USES_TERMINAL_<step> arguments are passed to
ExternalProject_Add instead of one USES_TERMINAL argument that
controls everything. Users may wish to run some steps in parallel
but not others (e.g. parallelize configure but not build).
Create target property WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS to automatically
generate a module definition file from MS-compatible .obj files and give
it to the linker in order to export all symbols from the .dll part of a
SHARED library.
Add a TestLoad setting to CTest that can be set via a new --test-load
command-line option, CTEST_TEST_LOAD variable, or TEST_LOAD option to
the ctest_test command. Teach cmCTestMultiProcessHandler to measure
the CPU load and avoid starting tests that may take more than the
spare load currently available. The expression
<current_load> + <test_processors> <= <max-load>
must be true to start a new test.
Co-Author: Zack Galbreath <zack.galbreath@kitware.com>
8bcec4d2 Help: Add notes for topic 'GNUInstallDirs-special-prefixes'
c8bd37ec GNUInstallDirs: Add special cases for certain prefixes
5f30f175 GNUInstallDirs: Add test cases
54676a0e Help: Add notes for topic 'ConcurrentFortran-compiler-id'
7cd539b1 Add support for Concurrent Fortran 77 Compiler
0d204c1c CMakeDetermineCompilerId: Try matching compiler output to detect id
5f0dad75 CMakeDetermineCompilerId: Refactor id build/check loop logic
c65a060e CMakeDetermineCompilerId: Optionally try some flags before no flags
The Concurrent Fortran compiler (ccur.com) is available on Linux and can
be used much like the GNU Fortran compiler. Currently it has no
preprocessor symbols to identify it so we need to detect it by matching
compiler output.
Suggested-by: Anthony Ette <Anthony.R.Ette@controlsdata.com>
Create a <LANG>_COMPILER_LAUNCHER target property (initialized by a
CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_LAUNCHER variable) to specify a compiler launcher
tool. This will supersede the CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_ARG1 approach to
using such tools. The old approach set CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER to the
launcher tool while the new approach leaves this variable set to the
actual compiler.
Implement this property for Makefile and Ninja generators. It cannot be
implemented for VS or Xcode generators as the IDE build tools offer no
such hooks.
The most likely documentation page a project author will read in
response to a policy warning is the page for the policy itself.
Add to every policy documentation page a note explicitly stating
that the OLD behavior is deprecated. Also mention this in the
cmake_policy() command documentation that explains how to set a
policy to OLD.
Suggested-by: Fraser Hutchison <fraser.hutchison@gmail.com>
Revert commit v3.3.0-rc1~435^2 (Windows-GNU: Do not tell find_library to
treat '.dll' as linkable, 2015-02-18). MinGW tools support linking to
'.dll' files directly and many non-CMake build systems still do not
provide a separate '.dll.a' file.
When documenting in the COMMAND option how to reference an executable,
we previously only explicitly covered how to do it for argv[0] and left
it to the reader to follow the reference to the generator expressions
manual. Add explicit mention of the TARGET_FILE genex in this
documentation since it will be a commonly used generator expression in
this context.
The test for this variable was removed in commit v2.8.8~330^2~7 (complex:
Remove ancient unused ComplexRelativePaths test, 2011-12-23).
Commit v3.1.0-rc1~425^2~2 (backtrace: Convert to local paths in
IssueMessage, 2014-03-12) appears to have accidentally made some backtraces
print relative paths with the variable because conversions which used to be
done at configure time, before the variable had an effect are now potentially
done at generate time.
The documentation of the variable says not to use it, and the docs are wrong in
that the variable actually applies in per-directory scope.
The read of the variable makes it harder to split conversion methods from
cmLocalGenerator where they don't belong. Remove it now.
Add section headers similar to the 3.2 release notes and move each
individual bullet into an appropriate section. Revise and consolidate
some bullets covering related areas.
Move all development release notes into a new version-specific document:
tail -q -n +3 Help/release/dev/* > Help/release/3.3.rst
git rm -- Help/release/dev/*
except the sample topic:
git checkout HEAD -- Help/release/dev/0-sample-topic.rst
Reference the new document from the release notes index document.
Add a title and intro sentence to the new document by hand.
CMake-generated targets are not supported by add_dependencies. State
this explicitly and use 'install' as an example since this may be
commonly attempted.
target_link_libraries() is being used in the example code but
target_include_directories() was probably meant to be used. The sentence
that starts with "Consuming code then" indicates that the example is
about using the appropriate include directory.
The <LANG>_VISIBILITY_PRESET and VISIBILITY_INLINES_HIDDEN were first
merged in commit v2.8.12~322 (Merge topic 'VISIBILITY_PRESET-property',
2013-06-05) but worked only for shared libraries and executables with
exports. Prior to commit v3.0.0-rc1~581^2 (GenerateExportHeader:
Deprecate add_compiler_export_flags function., 2013-09-02) the
add_compiler_export_flags function was used to add visibility flags to
all targets.
The visibility flags are useful for sources in all target types because
they may be later linked into shared libraries or executables with
exports. Introduce policy CMP0063 to enable them for all target types
while preserving compatibility with existing projects that do not expect
this.
Add an ExternalData_NO_SYMLINKS to enable use of copies instead of
symlinks to populate the real data files behind a DATA{} reference.
This will be useful on UNIX-like systems when the underlying filesystem
does not actually support symbolic links.
Suggested-by: Matt McCormick <matt.mccormick@kitware.com>
This reverts commit f85db2f323.
Discussion by the QtCreator community at
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-13695
raises concerns about this particular approach to working with CMake
projects using QtCreator. Also, the functionality and design of the QBS
extra generator was never discussed on the CMake mailing list or with
QtCreator developers. There may be better ways to make the two tools
work together.
In order to avoid committing to long-term support of this generator
prior to such discussion taking place, revert it from CMake for now.
We may restore this or use an alternative design based on results of
such discussion.
e462ef74 Help: Add notes for topic 'cmake-gui-osx-install-command-line'
8ea2db26 cmake-gui: Replace command-line install dialog with information box
438ce4a0 cmake-gui: Add --install option to add command-line tools on OS X
41477d5c cmake-gui: Drop undocumented and unused --mac-install option
Always show the option with its argument separate in summary text.
State in the main documentation that the option and its argument can be
given together too.
Create a <LANG>_INCLUDE_WHAT_YOU_USE target property (initialized by a
CMAKE_<LANG>_INCLUDE_WHAT_YOU_USE variable) to specify an IWYU command
line to be run along with the compiler.
The find_package command, on Windows, has always searched build trees
recently visited by cmake-gui (or CMakeSetup at one time). This was
done when the command was created with the intention of simplifying
workflows involving building multiple dependent projects. However,
this behavior depends on recent developer interaction and therefore
can create different find results based on transient system states.
It can lead to surprising results and user confusion.
Since this behavior was first added CMake has gained many more search
options, better error messages when a package is not found, and a
package registry. The latter in particular allows projects to make
their build trees available for dependent projects to find without
user intervention. Therefore the originally intended workflow can
be achieved in other, more stable ways.
After the above evoluion of find_package we have now decided that
the magic search-where-cmake-gui-was behavior does more harm than
good. Drop it. We do not need a policy for this behavior change
because it only affects interactive use.
Use the KWSys Process "MergeOutput" option to give the child process
the same pipe (or file) for both stdout and stderr. This allows
natural merging of stdout and stderr together instead of merging
on arbitrary buffered read boundaries as before.
5731fb2e ctest_build: mention CTEST_BUILD_COMMAND in the docs
753da8c6 ctest_build: update the default target documentation
5ab896ae ctest_build: spruce up the documentation a bit
This reverts commit 242c3966 (add_custom_command: Diagnose
MAIN_DEPENDENCY limitation, 2015-03-09) and the follow up commit
b372a99a (UseSWIG: Do not use MAIN_DEPENDENCY on custom commands,
2015-03-26).
I misdiagnosed the underlying issue that prompted creation of policy CMP0057.
The actual issue surfaces when a single custom command's MAIN_DEPENDENCY
is listed in more than one target; this issue will have to be addressed
independently.
The previous example for CMP0054 did not show how critical the policy is
since the result is the same in both cases (NEW and OLD behavior).
Instead show an example when the policy does make a difference.
Add sections to the cmake-buildsystem(7) manual and cross-reference
them with relevant variables and target properties. This avoids
duplicating the information and allows it to be more detailed.
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
Brad King
James Johnston
Marc Chevrier
Felix Geyer
Chuck Atkins
Roger Leigh
Robert Goulet
Matt McCormick
James Johnston
Michael Scott
Ben Boeckel
Clifford Yapp
Stephen Kelly
Zack Galbreath
Mikhail Filimonov
Michael Ensslin
Daniel Pfeifer
Bill Hoffman
Betsy McPhail
Erik Sjölund
Konstantin Podsvirov
Raffi Enficiaud
Nils Gladitz
Tamás Kenéz