[CMake] Visual Studio 7.1 and ADD_DEPENDENCIES

[Brandon Van Every]

On Nov 14, 2007 7:12 AM, Salvatore Iovene
<salvatore.iovene+cmake at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> when I use CMake 2.4.7 to generate NMake Makefiles everything builds
> fine, but if I generate Visual Studio 7.1 project files, and then open
> the Visual Studio Solution, I notice that some things get linked just
> for appearing as a dependency.
>
> ADD_DEPENDENCIES(my_lib my_otherlib), where both libs are STATIC,
> will cause my_otherlib to be linked to my_lib even tho I didn't
> explicitly request so using the TARGET_LINK_LIBRARY command. Is this a
> bug or am I missing something?

Perhaps a bug... but why are you specifying a dependency, if my_lib
doesn't utilize my_otherlib?


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every