[CMake] Dependency question

[David Cole]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using CMake 2.8.6 and generating for VS 2003.
> I have a DLL project that my EXE project needs to depend on, however I don't
> want my EXE to link against that DLL's import library, since the EXE will
> call LoadLibrary() to dynamically import symbols from the DLL being built.
> I want the EXE project to depend on the DLL project so that in visual studio
> the DLL is built when I build the EXE (because of project dependencies), but
> I don't want the DLL 's import LIB to be linked in via command line.
> Any way to do this?
>
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add_dependencies(exe dll)

But use the CMake target names, not "exe" and "dll"...

That makes sure that the project build for "dll" is completely done
before beginning any build commands for the "exe" project.


HTH,
David