[CMake] Visual C++ Compile/Link Flags

[Shoaib Meenai]

Visual Studio's linker (and compiler, for that matter) also accept flags that start with dashes instead of slashes (e.g. you can do -opt:noref instead of /opt:noref).

From: CMake <cmake-bounces at cmake.org> on behalf of ThePhD <jm3689 at columbia.edu>
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at 1:10 PM
To: "cmake at cmake.org" <cmake at cmake.org>
Subject: Re: [CMake] Visual C++ Compile/Link Flags

Thank you, Jano Svitok and Volker Enderlein.
     I settled for using "set_target_properties( ... )", and to specify multiple LINK_FLAGS I encapsulated both arguments I wanted to pass in a single set of quotes (with a space between them). I suppose the APPEND_STRING approach could also work well, if I wanted to add multiple.

I appreciate the help!

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 9:11 AM, Volker Enderlein <volker.enderlein at ifm-chemnitz.de<mailto:volker.enderlein at ifm-chemnitz.de>> wrote:

set_target_properties(target PROPERTIES LINK_FLAGS "/OPT:NOREF") should work.


Am 13/02/2018 um 14:38 schrieb ThePhD:
I have a project where I attempt to add linker flags to a Visual Studio project using

     target_link_libraries(lib_target PRIVATE /OPT:NOREF)

But it seems like the `/` syntax automatically has CMake assuming that the flag is a file, and it complains it cannot find the file. Is there any way to have CMake recognize a passed-in linker flag using this syntax? As a side note, is there perhaps a better way of passing in Linker flags that I am not aware of? Documentation stated that using "target_link_libraries" is preferred, and I did not find "target_link_options".
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