[CMake] CMAKE_CXX_COMPILE_OBJECT for compiler with no -o support

[Werner Smekal]

Hi,

would be cool if you could add some information here:

http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Useful_Variables

Regards,
Werner

Trevor Kellaway wrote:
> Alex,
> 
>> Three ideas:
>> - do as you suggest, use a wrapper
>> - try whether you can get it working with something like 
>> ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/CMakeFiles/${_target}.dir
>> - check the cmake source for "OBJECT" and if there is nothing 
>> like "OBJECT_DIR write a patch and submit it 
> 
>>From looking at the source it turns out OBJECT_DIR has already been implemented! My proposal of OBJECT_DIR was just a suggestion, I didn't expect it to actually be there.
> 
> FYI, source file cmLocalGenerator.cxx function cmLocalGenerator::ExpandRuleVariable() has lots of useful (mostly undocumented) strings:
> 
> 	ASSEMBLY_SOURCE
> 	FLAGS
> 	LANGUAGE_COMPILE_FLAGS
> 	LINK_FLAGS
> 	LINK_LIBRARIES
> 	OBJECT
> 	OBJECTS
> 	OBJECTS_QUOTED
> 	OBJECT_DIR
> 	PREPROCESSED_SOURCE
> 	SOURCE
> 	TARGET
> 	TARGET_BASE
> 	TARGET_IMPLIB
> 	TARGET_INSTALLNAME_DIR
> 	TARGET_PDB
> 	TARGET_QUOTED
> 	TARGET_SONAME
> 	TARGET_VERSION_MAJOR
> 	TARGET_VERSION_MINOR
> 
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