[CMake] Dependencies

[Zaak Beekman]

I might also add that the set_property() approach has an additional
advantage over the set_source_files_properties(): The APPEND and
APPEND_STRING options allow you to add properties like dependencies without
overwriting the values which already exist.


> Hi Phil.
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>> If your FOO.asm is used as a source file (i.e. it's listed in an
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> add_executable() or add_library() command), then you can use the source
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> file property OBJECT_DEPENDS for that:
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>>   add_executable(myexe FOO.asm other.file one.more)
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>>   set_property(SOURCE FOO.asm PROPERTY OBJECT_DEPENDS BAR.mac BAZ.mac)
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> list of dependencies here
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>> As an alternative to set_property(), you can use the weaker, but shorthand
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> setter set_source_files_properties() (which can set it for multiple files
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>> If they're somehow processed with a custom command/target (i.e. via
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> add_custom_command() or add_custom_target() instead of library/executable),
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> you can use that command's DEPENDS argument.
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>> Petr
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>> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Phil Smith <phil at voltage.com> wrote:
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>> > This is surely something basic, but I'm far from a CMake guru and would
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> > We have assembler modules in a project. These use macros, as assembler
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> > So if module FOO.asm uses macro BAR.mac, and we change BAR, a CMake
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> > rebuild FOO. We recognize that we're going to have to define these
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> > dependencies manually, but I'm assuming/hoping that there's a way to do
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> > that in a CMakeLists.
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> > Unfortunately words like "dependency" make lousy search terms!
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> > Can someone point me? Or, even better, give me an example of how to say
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> > "FOO.asm depends on macro BAR.mac"?
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> > Thanks...
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> > --
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> > ...phsiii
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> > Phil Smith III
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