[CMake] Visual Studio - dependencies

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-04-19 15:25-0400 Bill Hoffman wrote:

> Vitor Vasconcelos Araujo Silva wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>> [...]So, the question: Is it possible to control this kind of 
>>>> dependecies/behavior from CMakeLists files?
>>> 
>>> Yes.  Look up ADD_DEPENDENCIES at 
>>> http://cmake.org/HTML/Documentation.html.
>>> 
>>> Alan
>> 
>>     Thanks Alan, but it doesn't help. If I use it, I cannot build the 
>> Visual Studio project, because the dependence is a library that I intend 
>> to build inside my project.
>>     Well, maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I almost sure I cannot add 
>> a library as a dependence before have it built. So, my problem 
>> continues...
>>     Thanks a lot,
> You are doing something wrong, but with out some more examples it is hard to 
> tell what.   add_dependency should not be required.

Sorry for that poor advice.  I sent off that post too quickly.  Bill is
correct (as usual!).

> You should have something like this:
>
> add_library(foo ...)
> add_exectuable(bar ...)
> target_link_libraries(bar foo)
>
> I am guessing you have something like this:
> target_link_libraries(bar /some/path/to/foo) So, cmake is not treating foo as 
> a target that it knows how to build, but rather an external library that is 
> assumed to exist.

Alan
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