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<p class="MsoNormal">So, are you suggesting that I make a “dummy” target and fill it with the common options in compile_definitions() and include_directories() (et. al.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then make my OBJECT libraries (and the shared library) depend on the “dummy” target?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If that’s not the suggestion, I’m afraid I don’t see how I can use this to set the common flags<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Chuck Atkins <chuck.atkins@kitware.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 2:12 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Rob Boehne <robb@datalogics.com><br>
<b>Cc: </b>CMake Mail List <cmake@cmake.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [CMake] Building arguments to target_comple_definitions()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Rob,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">target_compile_definitions( CHUNK1 ${COMMON_DEFINITIONS} CHUNK1_STUFF CHUNK_NAME=\”One\” )<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is what I was referring to. Adding visibility to target_compile_definitions:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">target_compile_definitions(CHUNK1 PRIVATE ${COMMON_DEFINITIONS} CHUNK1_STUFF CHUNK_NAME=\"One\")<br>
target_compile_definitions(CHUNK2 PRIVATE ${COMMON_DEFINITIONS} CHUNK2_STUFF CHUNK_NAME=\"Two\")<br>
target_compile_definitions(FooBar PRIVATE ${COMMON_DEFINITIONS})</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All of the target_<foo> commands take the format target_foo(target_name USAGE_VISIBILY bar1 bar2 bar3 ...). target_link_libraries is the exception with everythign being PUBLIC by default but only because it pre-dates all the other target
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Chuck<o:p></o:p></p>
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