[cmake-developers] <TARGET> availability

Vittorio Giovara vittorio.giovara at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 08:11:44 EDT 2013


On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Vittorio Giovara <
vittorio.giovara at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> On 3/20/2013 4:52 AM, Vittorio Giovara wrote:
>> > is it possible to use the <TARGET> variable during the COMPILE_OBJECT
>> phase?
>> > I see it only working on EXECUTABLE and LIBRARY steps but a few
>> > languages would benefit from having <TARGET> available during
>> > COMPILE_OBJECT as well.
>> > Is there any way to make it work with the current cmake version?
>>
>> It would take some changes to the C++ code.  Look here:
>>
>>
>> http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=blob;f=Source/cmMakefileTargetGenerator.cxx;hb=v2.8.10.2#l658
>>
>> If one sets vars.Target next to where vars.TargetPDB is
>> set then the replacement should occur.  If you get it working
>> please respond back here with a patch.
>>
>
> Yup, thanks to your tip, I got it working as expected.
> Please find the patch attached, I'll be glad if you could apply it.
> I'm fine with BSD licensing.
>

Apologies, I missed the fact that <TARGET> should also contain the output
path.
Please find attached an updated version of the patch, using a similar
procedure as found in cmMakefileExectuableTargetGenerator.

Do you know if this patch can still make it to CMake 2.8.11 or is it too
late?
Thanks,
Vittorio
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