[cmake-developers] Setting target properties before the target is defined ?

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Fri Feb 15 17:13:06 EST 2013


On 02/15/2013 04:37 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> So is it possible to refer to not-yet-defined targets from tll(), and what 
> happens if they get not defined later on ?

This works at it always has.  If the named item does not resolve to a
target name at generate time it is treated as a raw library (-lfoo).
If it does resolve to a target then now the usage requirements will
be applied from its interface properties.  The decision now occurs
at generate time.

-Brad



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