[CMake] How to get generated dependencies

[J Decker]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:31 AM, j s <j.s4403 at gmail.com> wrote:
> From what I remember from the mailing list a long time ago, CMake has its
> own dependency generator independent of the CPP.
>
it does; but not for all generators
>
> On 1/13/16 1:20 PM, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 2:09 PM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The short answer is 'no'.
>>
>> I see depends.internal was generated with the gcc (in my case) option
>> -MD (or perhaps -MDD).  Ss cmake knows how to do this.  Question: is
>> this at build time or Makefile generation time?  If the latter, it
>> would be nice if this could be exposed to the user
>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Tom Kacvinsky
>>> <tom.kacvinsky at vectorcast.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Tom Kacvinsky
>>>> <tom.kacvinsky at vectorcast.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way of invoking cmake to get the list of non-system header
>>>>> dependencies, like invoking gcc with -MMD?  I need to find out the
>>>>> list of non-system header dependencies and I know cmake has a way of
>>>>> doing this, I just need to know if there is command I can put in the
>>>>> CMakeLists.txt file to get this information...
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way of accessing the generated dependencies?  I know
>>>> there is a generation phase, but I don't think I can access the files
>>>> being generated during the generation process is.  Is there a way of
>>>> doing what I want?  All I need is a list of include included headers
>>>> (excluding system ones) for a given C++ file.
>
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