[CMake] Difference between IMPORTED_LINK_DEPENDENT_LIBRARIES and IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES

Hendrik Sattler post at hendrik-sattler.de
Wed Dec 10 17:33:52 EST 2008


Am Wednesday 10 December 2008 22:57:09 schrieb James Bigler:
> I've read the documentation, but it's still not clear to me what the
> difference between these two property is.
>
> Could someone please explain it to me?

Under some circumstances, when linking to a library you also have to link with 
all dependent libraries, and sometimes linking to the link-interface 
libraries is sufficient.
The one is a subset of the other.

HS



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