[cmake-developers] [CMake 0014044]: The Xcode generator produces an invalid target that will not get linked if it consists only of objects from object libraries

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=14044 
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Reported By:                Matthias Maier
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   14044
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2013-03-27 08:50 EDT
Last Modified:              2013-03-27 08:50 EDT
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Summary:                    The Xcode generator produces an invalid target that
will not get linked if it consists only of objects from object libraries
Description: 
Example code snippet:

  ADD_LIBRARY(foo OBJECT
    foo.cc
    )
  ADD_LIBRARY(bar SHARED
    $<TARGET_OBJECTS:foo>
    )

"$ xcodebuild -target bar" will compile foo.obj but libbar.dylib doesn't get
linked.

As a workaround,

  ADD_LIBRARY(foo OBJECT
    foo.cc
    )
  ADD_LIBRARY(bar SHARED
    dummy.cc
    $<TARGET_OBJECTS:foo>
    )

does work as expected (links dummy.obj and foo.obj to a libbar.dylib).
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2013-03-27 08:50 Matthias Maier New Issue                                    
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