[CMake] Appending to the LINK_FLAGS target property ?

[Glenn Coombs]

Excellent.  Do you know if this option was included in the recent cmake
2.8.5 release, or will it not appear officially until 2.8.6 ?

On 22 July 2011 18:39, Johan Björk <phb at spotify.com> wrote:

> Glenn,
>
> An option APPEND_STRING was added, see
> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12342
>
> /Johan
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Glenn Coombs <glenn.coombs at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > For variables like CMAKE_C_FLAGS one can append to them like this:
> >
> >     set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CFLAGS} -some_option")
> >
> > For target properties like LINK_FLAGS I was using this command:
> >
> >     set_property(TARGET myDLL APPEND PROPERTY LINK_FLAGS
> > /NODEFAULTLIB:"LIBCMT")
> >
> > to do the append.  However, when I append a second time:
> >
> >     set_property(TARGET myDLL APPEND PROPERTY LINK_FLAGS
> > /INCLUDE:_InitLibrary)
> >
> > then it breaks because the string that Visual Studio sees contains a
> > semicolon in between the 2 options.  I can work round this by writing my
> > append like this:
> >
> >     get_property(link_flags TARGET myDLL PROPERTY LINK_FLAGS)
> >     set(link_flags "${link_flags} /INCLUDE:_InitLibrary")
> >     set_target_properties(myDLL PROPERTIES LINK_FLAGS ${link_flags})
> >
> > but that is a bit verbose for my liking.  I understand that the
> semicolons
> > are how cmake separates list items from one another but shouldn't cmake
> > automatically stringify the list (by replacing semicolons with spaces)
> > before passing it through to the generator code ?  The same problem will
> > occur for any of the XXX_FLAGS properties like COMPILE_FLAGS that are
> passed
> > through unchanged to the makefile or Visual Studio project file.
> >
> > Is it worth filing a feature request to ask for cmake to stringify lists
> for
> > the appropriate variables ?  Or is there a good reason why cmake can't or
> > shouldn't implement this behaviour ?
> >
> > --
> > Glenn
> >
> >
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