[CMake] static library dependences in MSVC

[David Purton]

Hi,

I have a project that has a number of interdependent libraries and and
then applications that depend on them. Because of the way I distribute
the applications I build everything statically.

I notice that when you generate makefiles, dependencies between the
libraries seem to be handled well. So if I change a header in one
library, then those libraries that include this header get rebuilt, then
any apps depending on all rebuilt libraries get rebuilt, etc.

However, this doesn't work with Visual Studio. I see that there is a
line in cmGlobalVisualStudio71Generator.cxx that looks like this:

  if (target.GetType() != cmTarget::STATIC_LIBRARY)
  {
    // do dependency stuff
  }

So of course the dependency info is not included in the sln file for my
static libraries.


My questions are:

1) Why is this done this way?

2) Will bad things happen if I take the 'if' statement out?


It seems to work ok, but I have only been playing with CMake and Visual
Studio for a few days...


cheers

dc

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