[CMake] Private dependencies of static libraries exported as targets

Ivan Shapovalov intelfx at intelfx.name
Mon Aug 15 22:22:25 EDT 2016


On 2016-08-15 at 21:46 -0400, Guillaume Dumont wrote:
> As far as I know the PRIVATE
> keyword
> should have no effect on transitive linking when foo is static and we
> call:
> 
> target_link_libraries(foo PRIVATE bar)
> 
> Hope this helps.

Wow. I did not know that. Should've tested on sample project.
It does not solve include path bloat though, but that's a minor issue.

One question remains... is this behavior documented somewhere?

Anyway, huge thanks,
-- 
Ivan Shapovalov / intelfx /
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