[CMake] Trouble with conditional generator expression inside target_link_libraries
Andrew Fuller
afuller at teradici.com
Thu Oct 4 12:15:41 EDT 2018
What about this:
list(APPEND FOO_LIBRARIES_OPT foo)
list(APPEND FOO_LIBRARIES_DBG foo_d)
target_link_libraries(my_exe
PUBLIC
debug "$<$<BOOL:${USE_FOOLIB}>:${FOO_LIBRARIES_DBG}>"
optimized "$<$<BOOL:${USE_FOOLIB}>:${FOO_LIBRARIES_OPT}>"
"$<$<BOOL:${USE_BARLIB}>:bar>"
)
A little more verbose.
________________________________
From: Björn Blissing <bjorn.blissing at vti.se>
Sent: October 4, 2018 9:00:28 AM
To: Andrew Fuller; Eric Noulard
Cc: CMake Mailinglist
Subject: RE: [CMake] Trouble with conditional generator expression inside target_link_libraries
Hi Andrew,
When I put the genex inside double quotes I get:
optimized.lib;foo.lib;debug.lib;foo_d.lib;bar.lib; --- for both debug and release builds
Regards,
Björn
From: Andrew Fuller <afuller at teradici.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2018 5:54 PM
To: Björn Blissing <bjorn.blissing at vti.se>; Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com>
Cc: CMake Mailinglist <cmake at cmake.org>
Subject: Re: [CMake] Trouble with conditional generator expression inside target_link_libraries
What happens if you put the genex inside double quotes?
target_link_libraries(my_exe
PUBLIC
"$<$<BOOL:${USE_FOOLIB}>:${FOO_LIBRARIES}>"
"$<$<BOOL:${USE_BARLIB}>:bar>"
)
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From: CMake <cmake-bounces at cmake.org<mailto:cmake-bounces at cmake.org>> on behalf of Björn Blissing <bjorn.blissing at vti.se<mailto:bjorn.blissing at vti.se>>
Sent: October 4, 2018 8:49:19 AM
To: Eric Noulard
Cc: CMake Mailinglist
Subject: Re: [CMake] Trouble with conditional generator expression inside target_link_libraries
Hi Eric,
I tried to do a self contained minimal example:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12)
project(expension_error LANGUAGES CXX)
add_executable(my_exe main.cpp)
option(USE_FOOLIB "Use foo.lib" ON)
option(USE_BARLIB "Use bar.lib" ON)
list(APPEND FOO_LIBRARIES optimized foo)
list(APPEND FOO_LIBRARIES debug foo_d)
target_link_libraries(my_exe
PUBLIC
$<$<BOOL:${USE_FOOLIB}>:${FOO_LIBRARIES}>
$<$<BOOL:${USE_BARLIB}>:bar>
)
But when I run this script using CMake 3.12.2, it expands to something even worse:
$<1:optimized;foo.lib;foo_d>.lib;bar.lib --- for debug builds
$<1:optimized;foo.lib;>.lib;bar.lib-- for release builds
So something goes really wrong when I try to use a list inside a conditional generator expression inside target_link_libraries().
Regards,
Björn
From: Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com<mailto:eric.noulard at gmail.com>>
Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2018 5:10 PM
To: Björn Blissing <bjorn.blissing at vti.se<mailto:bjorn.blissing at vti.se>>
Cc: CMake Mailinglist <cmake at cmake.org<mailto:cmake at cmake.org>>
Subject: Re: [CMake] Trouble with conditional generator expression inside target_link_libraries
Le jeu. 4 oct. 2018 à 16:53, Björn Blissing <bjorn.blissing at vti.se<mailto:bjorn.blissing at vti.se>> a écrit :
Hello Eric,
The minimal example was just to display the expansion error. In real life the code uses a Boolean variable (and the rest of the CMake code is much larger as well).
It was just to show the expansion error you get if you try to use a conditional generator expression inside a target_link_libraries function.
Sometimes the devil is hiding in the details.
Do ou manage to reproduce the genex expansion error on a toy example?
I do agree that using it would be simpler if I could use:
$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:${MYLIBS_DEBUG}>
$<$<CONFIG:Release>:${MYLIBS_OPTIMIZED}>
But since I use a third party find module the MYLIB_LIBRARIES variable is not separated into these categories. I was hoping to avoid rewriting this external find module.
You can perfectly write a CMake helper function which takes MYLIB_LIBRARIES as input and spit out MYLIBS_DEBUG, MYLIBS_OPTIMIZED as an output.
This way you don't have to rewrite 3rd party code and keep your code clean.
--
Eric
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