This target type only contains INTERFACE_* properties, so it can be
used as a structural node. The target-specific commands enforce
that they may only be used with the INTERFACE keyword when used
with INTERFACE_LIBRARY targets. The old-style target properties
matching LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES_<CONFIG> are always ignored for
this target type.
The name of the INTERFACE_LIBRARY must match a validity generator
expression. The validity is similar to that of an ALIAS target,
but with the additional restriction that it may not contain
double colons. Double colons will carry the meaning of IMPORTED
or ALIAS targets in CMake 2.8.13.
An ALIAS target may be created for an INTERFACE library.
At this point it can not be exported and does not appear in the
buildsystem and project files are not created for them. That may
be added as a feature in a later commit.
The generators need some changes to handle the INTERFACE_LIBRARY
targets returned by cmComputeLinkInterface::GetItems. The Ninja
generator does not use that API, so it doesn't require changes
related to that.
Since commit 328c0f65 (Simplify cmVisualStudio10TargetGenerator source
classification, 2012-03-19) the VS 10 generator uses the
cmGeneratorTarget source classification instead of directly getting the
list of source files from the target. This accidentally dropped the
CMakeLists.txt files from generated projects because they are added too
late for cmGeneratorTarget.
All generator-specific source files must be added to targets prior to
cmGeneratorTarget construction. Refactor addition of the CMakeLists.txt
files with CMake re-run custom commands to take place before normal
generation begins, and therefore early enough to be included in the
cmGeneratorTarget classification.
Move the Version member to the top cmLocalVisualStudioGenerator class
and set it consistently for instances created by all the global
generator versions. Use an enumeration type with values scaled by a
factor of 10 so we can handle VS 7.1 without out-of-order numbers.
VS 7.1 support for SuppressStartupBanner was broken by commit 25116a3c
(Fix CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE for VS10 vcxproj files, 2011-10-11) because
it assumed comparison of VS version numbers works. Now it does.
The VS 10 msbuild tool uses a single command shell to invoke all the
custom command scripts in a project. Isolate the environment and
working directory of custom commands using setlocal/endlocal. The
form of each command is
set errlev=
setlocal
cd c:\work\dir
if %errorlevel% neq 0 goto :cmEnd
c:
if %errorlevel% neq 0 goto :cmEnd
command1 ...
if %errorlevel% neq 0 goto :cmEnd
...
commandN ...
if %errorlevel% neq 0 goto :cmEnd
:cmEnd
endlocal & set errlev=%errorlevel%
if %errlev% neq 0 goto :VCEnd
so that all changes to the environment and working directory are
isolated within the script and the return code is preserved.
In VS9 and previous versions, :VCReportError is the goto label
to jump to after a failed custom command. It stops the build
before it tries to go any further.
In VS10, :VCEnd is the correct label to use.
Create a method in the VS generators to provide the correct
line of script to use for each version of Visual Studio.
For more internal details, search for VCEnd in the
C:\Program Files\MSBuild directory.
This converts the CMake license to a pure 3-clause OSI-approved BSD
License. We drop the previous license clause requiring modified
versions to be plainly marked. We also update the CMake copyright to
cover the full development time range.
Until now the VS 10 generator did no Windows command-line escaping and
just did XML escapes. This commit teaches the generator to use the same
command-line escape addition code used by other generators. The script
construction method cmLocalVisualStudioGenerator::ConstructScript need
not do XML escapes. Each VS generator version adds the XML escapes
necessary for that version.
Stephen Kelly
Ben Boeckel
Kitware Robot
Leonid Yurchenko
Brad King
Bill Hoffman
David Cole