[CMake] XCode automatic dependencies

Jeroen Dierckx jeroen.dierckx at gmail.com
Thu Sep 3 08:36:54 EDT 2009


On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Bill Hoffman<bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> Jeroen Dierckx wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are in the progress of converting our build system(s) to cmake, and
>> we are working on the following platforms:
>> - Windows (VS2008)
>> - Linux (KDevelop)
>> - Mac OSX Snow Leopard (XCode)
>> - iPhone (through XCode)
>>
>> Everything works very good, and I am glad that we took the dive. In
>> XCode however, dependencies on other cmake-generated targets aren't
>> setup automatically. The CMake book and documentation states that it
>> is enough to use target_link_libraries, and cmake should detect all
>> internal dependencies automatically. This works perfectly in our
>> generated Visual Studio files, but it doesn't work on XCode.
>>
>> When I explicitly use add_dependency with the same targets, everything
>> is setup correctly, also in XCode.
>>
>
> Can you give a small example that shows this issue?

Hmm. I just installed the latest version of cmake, which seems to work
as expected. I removed the explicit add_dependency lines, and all
dependencies are setup correctly, also in XCode.

Sorry to bother you...

Greetings,
JeDi


>
> -Bill
>


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