[CMake] PROPERTY for list of link libraries

[J Decker]

LOCATION was/is deprecated... the preferred method is generator expressions
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.3/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.html
$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:tgt>
$<TARGET_FILE_NAME:tgt>

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Tom Kacvinsky
<tom.kacvinsky at vectorcast.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Tom Kacvinsky
> <tom.kacvinsky at vectorcast.com> wrote:
>> I have need for a cross platform methods of getting libraries linked
>> into an executable.
>>
>> Say for instance, we have
>>
>> add_library(foo STATIC a.c)
>> add_exceutable(bar b.c)
>> target_link_libraries(bar foo)
>>
>> So I know for that bar has a dependency on foo.lib (on Windows) and
>> libfoo.a on Linux.
>>
>> And so forth.  What I would like to do is after everything is set up,
>> query the properties of bar
>> and find the list of libraries linked into bar in such a fashion I get
>> that platform's specific library name (instead of the library's target
>> name).
>>
>> IS this possible?  I read the docs and didn't see a property for
>> getting this list.  Did I miss something?  If so I plan on using
>> either get_property of get_target_property.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> Answering my own question
>
> get_property(libs TARGET a_target PROPERTY LINK_LIBRARIES)
> foreach(lib ${libs})
>   if(TARGET ${lib})
>     get_property(path TARGET ${lib} PROPERTY LOCATION)
>     message(STATUS ${path})
>   else()
>     message(STATUS ${lib})
>   endif()
> endforeach()
> --
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