[CMake] ExternalProject can't have interface library as a dependency

Andrey Pokrovskiy wonder.mice at gmail.com
Sat Apr 18 18:29:06 EDT 2015


> That sounds odd. What provides it as an INTERFACE library?

Me :) I created that target with add_library(openssl INTERFACE).

I think I better ask the same question on dev list, since it's mostly
details of get_property() implementation.

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 2:32 AM, Stephen Kelly <steveire at gmail.com> wrote:
> Andrey Pokrovskiy wrote:
>
>> /* I'm using cmake-3.2.20150331-gb190c. */
>>
>> I have a following construction:
>>
>> ExternalProject_Add(
>>         websockets_ep
>>         DEPENDS ev openssl
>>         ...)
>>
>> But it so happened, that "openssl" is a INTERFACE library.
>
> That sounds odd. What provides it as an INTERFACE library?
>
>
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