[CMake] custom configuration types and linking with 3rd-party libs

[Philip Lowman]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Yuri V. Timenkov
<ytimenkov at parallels.com>wrote:

> On Monday 25 August 2008 13:04:56 cyril_wobow wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > At the end of the present mail there is a dirty-but-simple patch for
> > cmComputeLinkDepends.cxx in the cmake sources.
> > It allows to have configuration types like "GuiDebug, GuiRelease,
> > ConsoleDebug, ConsoleRelease" and still have the two debug configs be
> > considered as debug (non-optimized) configs, thus link with the debug
> > version of 3rd-party libraries.
> >
> > Wondering if this patch could go into cmake trunk, until a better
> > solution is found (like real build configuration semantics).
> Usually, cmake developers suggest file issue into tracker and attach patch
> to
> it.
>
> I also thought about this simple solution. But, for example, we had stupid
> configuration name "ReleaseDebug" (It was release one but with debugging
> information and without any optimization).
>
> Other examples may include "profile", "coverage" or "maintainer" and one
> users
> may desire to use optimized libs for them, while others debug ones.
>
> The patch will not be much longer if you take into account extra list which
> contains names for optimized and debug configurations (You have Makefile
> reference with whole set of variables).
>
> Anyways, I think it is good functionality which CMake should have.


Does LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES_<CONFIG> do what you want to do?

See
http://www.cmake.org/HTML/cmake-2.6.html#prop_tgt:LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIESin
conjunction with SET_PROPERTY command.


If that works, CMake still could use a way to correlate the "debug" or
"optimized" target_link_libraries() directives with custom build
configurations. Perhaps something as simple as.

cmake default:
SET(CMAKE_DEBUG_CONFIGURATIONS Debug)
SET(CMAKE_OPTIMIZED_CONFIGURATIONS Release;MinSizeRel;RelWithDebInfo)
user code:
LIST(APPEND CMAKE_DEBUG_CONFIGURATIONS Profile Coverage Maintainer)
LIST(APPEND CMAKE_OPTIMIZED_CONFIGURATIONS SuperOptimized)

-- 
Philip Lowman
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