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Hi,</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; ">
I am using cmake to build an application made up of a dozen projects. We use cmake to automatically generate solutions for x86, x64, and both VS 2005 and 2010.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; ">
Here is an idea of our organisation:</p><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 30px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; ">
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a.lib, which has no dependency</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; word-wrap: break-word; ">
b.lib, which has no dependency</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; word-wrap: break-word; ">
c.lib, which depends on a and b</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; word-wrap: break-word; ">
d.dll, which depends on c</li></ul><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; ">
Each project lies in its own subdirectory, and has its own CMakeLists.txt file. In order to keep track of the lib/dll generated for our different platforms, we automatically post-fix each lib/dll with _x86/_x64 and _vc80/_vc100 (e.g., a_x86_vc100.lib), and with an _d for debug (e.g., a_x86_vc100_d.lib).</p>
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In the CMakeLists.txt files, I use target_link_libraries to link each target with the corresponding libraries, for instance:</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 10px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); quotes: none; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; ">
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TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES( c debug a_${VS}_${PLATFORM}<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; ">d optimized a</em>${VS_DIR}<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; ">${PLATFORM} debug b</em>${VS}_${PLATFORM}<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; ">d optimized b</em>${VS_DIR}_${PLATFORM})</p>
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In Visual Studio, the different "Project Dependencies" between the various projects do not appear. I wonder if there is something I miss, or if it is simply not compatible with our library post-fix. I also tried to use ADD_DEPENDENCIES(c a b) but it does not seem to work either.</p>
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Does anyone has an idea how to solve this?</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; ">
Cheers,</p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Ludovic</span> <br>
_______________________________________<br><br>Ludovic Hoyet<br>Research Fellow, <div><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Graphics Vision and Visualisation group,</span><br>
Trinity College Dublin<br><a href="http://www.scss.tcd.ie/~hoyetl/" target="_blank">http://www.scss.tcd.ie/~hoyetl/</a></div><br>