View Issue Details [ Jump to Notes ] [ Print ]
IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0015465CMake(No Category)public2015-03-21 05:032016-06-10 14:31
ReporterStephen Kelly 
Assigned ToKitware Robot 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
StatusclosedResolutionmoved 
PlatformOSOS Version
Product Version 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0015465: Provide a way to build individual files through cmake
Description
CMake has the `--build` command line option providing an abstraction of 'run the build in the specified directory' action. Particular configurations and targets to build can be specified with other options.

A new abstraction could be added for 'build the object for sourcefile f'.

The Makefiles generator already generates targets for each object in each directory. Those targets are not available from the 'top level' of the build dir.

 grantlee/make_build$ cmake .. -G "Unix Makefiles"
 grantlee/make_build$ make -C templates/lib engine.cpp.o

Ninja has native support for 'building the output of a source file' using '^'.

 grantlee/ninja_build$ cmake .. -G Ninja
 grantlee/ninja_build$ ninja ../templates/lib/engine.cpp^
 grantlee/ninja_build$ cmake --build . --target ../templates/lib/engine.cpp^

Ninja seems to build more dependencies of the object file though too (it runs moc via automoc for example, but make seems not to).

It is unknown whether the IDE generators have a way to build an individual file.

As the syntax is different for different tools, it could be useful for cmake to provide a unified abstraction.
TagsNo tags attached.
Attached Files

 Relationships
related to 0015462closedKitware Robot Provide a machine readable way to determine the available generators and other capabilities of the binary 

  Notes
(0038365)
Stephen Kelly (developer)
2015-03-30 16:55

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.users.kdevelop/7234 [^]
(0042740)
Kitware Robot (administrator)
2016-06-10 14:29

 Resolving issue as `moved`.

This issue tracker is no longer used. Further discussion of this issue may take place in the current CMake Issues page linked in the banner at the top of this page.

 Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2015-03-21 05:03 Stephen Kelly New Issue
2015-03-21 05:08 Stephen Kelly Relationship added related to 0015462
2015-03-30 16:55 Stephen Kelly Note Added: 0038365
2016-06-10 14:29 Kitware Robot Note Added: 0042740
2016-06-10 14:29 Kitware Robot Status new => resolved
2016-06-10 14:29 Kitware Robot Resolution open => moved
2016-06-10 14:29 Kitware Robot Assigned To => Kitware Robot
2016-06-10 14:31 Kitware Robot Status resolved => closed

Copyright © 2000 - 2018 MantisBT Team