[CMake] A CMake project called Help?

[Alan Garny]

> >> I would change the name of your target to help_something, then use
> >> OUTPUT_NAME to change it back to help.
> >>
> >> set_target_properties(MyHelp  PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME Help)
> >
> > Thanks Bill. Though I don't particularly like the idea, I thought I
> > would give it a try anyway. However, because I am still working on
> > that plugin, I currently need to refer to my 'plugin' when linking my
> application (i.e.
> > within TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES). And, when doing that, I get a linking
> > error about my 'plugin' not being found. If I change the name of my
> > plugin project back to "Help", then the linking works fine.
> > Interestingly, in both cases and as expected, the 'plugin' is properly
> > generated. It's just that if the project name for my 'plugin' is not
> > the same as the filename for the corresponding binary, then it can't be
> found during linking...!?
> >
> > So, I can see your suggestion to work if my 'plugin' was working as a
> > proper plugin (i.e. no need to refer to it from within
> > TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES for my application), but that's the case yet, so
it
> doesn't work for me...
> >
> 
> I would have to see the code, but it should work.  If you are using
> target_link_libraries with the target name (the correct thing to do), you
will
> need to change the target name in that spot as well.
> 
> Like this:
> 
> add_library(myhelp help.c)
> set_target_properties(myhelp  PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME Help)
> add_executable(foo foo.c) target_link_libraries(foo myhelp)

Ok, it must be because it's the end of the week. In other words, I
re-implemented it all (I had to revert earlier so that I could carry on with
my work) and now it's working fine. Good and sorry for the confusion!

Alan