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Author SHA1 Message Date
Brad King
4391913133 Add INTERFACE libraries to generated buildsystem if they have SOURCES
INTERFACE libraries were created with the intention of collecting usage
requirements for use by other targets via `target_link_libraries`.
Therefore they were not allowed to have SOURCES and were not included in
the generated buildsystem.  In practice, this has become limiting:

* Header-only libraries do have sources, they just do not compile.
  Developers should be able to edit those sources (the header files)
  in their IDE.

* Header-only libraries may need to generate some of their header
  files via custom commands.

Some projects work around these limitations by pairing each interface
library with an `add_custom_target` that makes the header files and
custom commands appear in the generated buildsystem and in IDEs.

Lift such limitations by allowing INTERFACE libraries to have SOURCES.
For those with sources, add a corresponding build target to the
generated buildsystem.

Fixes: #19145
2020-08-07 08:46:32 -04:00
Brad King
ac14cbf017 Allow add_dependencies() on INTERFACE libraries (#15414)
Revert commit v3.0.0-rc1~175^2~20 (add_dependencies: Disallow use with
INTERFACE_LIBRARY, 2013-12-25).  Teach our dependency analysis to
transitively follow INTERFACE target utility dependencies as was done or
IMPORTED targets in commit v2.8.6~127^2~1 (Allow add_dependencies() on
imported targets, 2010-11-19).  Extend the InterfaceLibrary test with a
case to cover header generation for a header-only INTERFACE library via
a custom target.
2015-03-27 16:25:09 -04:00
Stephen Kelly
7461d67cf3 cmTarget: Enable convenient include dir handling for INTERFACE_LIBRARY.
Make the CMAKE_INCLUDE_CURRENT_DIR_IN_INTERFACE variable affect
INTERFACE_LIBRARY targets.
2014-01-06 17:25:10 +01:00