AUTOMOC_DEPEND_FILTERS

Filter definitions used by AUTOMOC to extract file names from source code as additional dependencies for the moc file.

This property is only used if the AUTOMOC property is ON for this target.

Filters are defined as KEYWORD;REGULAR_EXPRESSION pairs. First the file content is searched for KEYWORD. If it is found at least once, then file names are extracted by successively searching for REGULAR_EXPRESSION and taking the first match group.

Consider a filter extracts the file name DEP from the content of a file FOO. If DEP changes, then the moc file for FOO gets rebuilt. The file DEP is searched for first in the vicinity of FOO and afterwards in the target’s INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.

By default AUTOMOC_DEPEND_FILTERS is initialized from CMAKE_AUTOMOC_DEPEND_FILTERS, which is empty by default.

See the cmake-qt(7) manual for more information on using CMake with Qt.

Example

Consider a file FOO.hpp holds a custom macro OBJ_JSON_FILE and we want the moc file to depend on the macro`s file name argument:

class My_Class : public QObject
{
  Q_OBJECT
  OBJ_JSON_FILE ( "DEP.json" )
...
};

Then we might use CMAKE_AUTOMOC_DEPEND_FILTERS to define a filter like this:

set(CMAKE_AUTOMOC_DEPEND_FILTERS
  "OBJ_JSON_FILE" "[\n][ \t]*OBJ_JSON_FILE[ \t]*\\([ \t]*\"([^\"]+)\""
)