[CMake] Append to property COMPILE_DEFINITIONS

[Craig Scott]

You appear to be setting a GLOBAL property where you probably meant
DIRECTORY. You could also consider setting the target property instead
rather than applying it to all targets (unless that's what you want).


On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Florian Lindner <mailinglists at xgm.de>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to add compile definitions. Since I want to use generator
> expressions, I can't use add_definitions, but have to
> use the COMPILE_DEFINITIONS property, but neither:
>
> set_property(GLOBAL APPEND
>   PROPERTY COMPILE_DEFINITIONS "-DFOO")
>
> for testing
>
> or
>
> set_property(GLOBAL APPEND
>   PROPERTY COMPILE_DEFINITIONS $<$<CONFIG:Debug>:-DDebug>)
>
> which should be final result, produces any -DFOO compiler switches.
>
> I also tried placing it before and after the add_executable call.
>
> What is wrong with that call?
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
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