[CMake] Problem with circular dependencies

[Michael Jackson]

On May 28, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Dmytro Ovdiienko wrote:

>
> > The other side of this problem is you have to write ADD_SUBDIRECTORY
> > commands in specific order. IMHO it is inconvenient.
>
> CMakeLists are essentially a scripting language, so of course order
> matters. What would you propose instead?
>
> But... why does TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES work correctly? You can pass  
> not loaded-yet project name to TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES.


Remember that you are passing the names of _libraries_ to  
"target_link_libraries" and not the names of Projects. The fact that  
it might work just means that you named your libraries the same as the  
project name.

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