The INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES_DIRECT property can add direct
link dependencies to the target at the head of the dependency chain.
The checks associated with LINK_LIBRARIES_ONLY_TARGETS also apply
to these link items, but the documentation wasn't updated to reflect
this when the INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES_DIRECT support was added.
This is the name of a placeholder used for some documentation in
`Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES_DIRECT.txt` that is included in
multiple documents. During development iterations, much of the content
was moved to just `Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES_DIRECT.rst`,
but the placeholder was not correctly replaced by its property name.
These changes restructure the docs to improve readability and flow,
correct grammar and typos, and fix errors and inconsistencies in
some of the examples.
Fixes: #23684
The sections on FetchContent's FIND_PACKAGE_ARGS and on
Dependency Providers only apply to CMake 3.24+, so add
versionadded markers at the start of both sections.
Extend the change from commit b764c7c273 (VS: Add property to turn off
Visual Studio compile batching, 2022-02-07, v3.24.0-rc1~710^2) by
adding a variable to initialize the property on every target.
Issue: #23179Fixes: #23639
Since commit 41ea4d4de8 (ci: Rebuild Qt 6.3.0 windows-arm64 dependency
with LLVM/Clang, 2022-06-17) the release binary package now includes a
working `cmake-gui`, and is ready for general usage.
Fixes: #21902
Revert commit 020976d637 (FindPkgConfig: Populate
_STATIC_LINK_LIBRARIES. Add STATIC_TARGET., 2021-12-31,
v3.24.0-rc1~105^2). Several regressions have been reported.
Revert the feature pending further discussion and design work.
Issue: #21714Fixes: #23642
Forward `CMAKE_<LANG>_FLAGS` and `CMAKE_<LANG>_FLAGS_DEBUG` from the
calling project into the test project. The set of flags may affect the
availability of IPO support. Since this may change the result of the
check for existing projects, add a policy for compatibility.
This was discovered after commit 5fcadc481e (MSVC: Default to -ZI
instead of /Zi for x86 and x64, 2022-05-24) introduced policy CMP0138 to
switch our default for MSVC's debug info flag. The `-ZI` flag is
incompatible with the `-GL` flag used for IPO, so CMP0138 was reverted
pending future work on an alternative solution. Re-use the CMP0138
policy number for this change to CheckIPOSupported instead.
Fixes: #23607
Revert commit 5fcadc481e (MSVC: Default to -ZI instead of /Zi for x86
and x64, 2022-05-24). The `-ZI` flag is incompatible with the `-GL`
flag used for IPO, and so is not an unconditionally better default.
Revert the change pending future design of a first-class setting for
MSVC debug info format that can be automatically reconciled with IPO
settings.
That commit introduced policy CMP0138, but we already have later policy
numbers used too. Leave placeholder text to avoid policy renumbering.
Issue: #23607, #10189
The guide previously only focused on the find_package() command,
with a bias towards libraries. FetchContent was not mentioned at all.
Reorganise and update the existing content. Add new sections to cover
providing dependencies with FetchContent and dependency providers.
Improve discoverability of the guide by mentioning it at the beginning
of the find_package(), FetchContent and dependency provider docs.
Projects should always have specified one of PRE_BUILD, PRE_LINK or
POST_BUILD, and the documentation has always shown that one must
be given. But the argument parsing logic was such that if none was given,
POST_BUILD would be used and no error or warning would be raised.
Projects may be relying on this behavior, so document it as formally
supported, but not recommended.
Fixes: #23488
5a9c7f76c0 Help: Document CMake version adding each preset version in cmake-presets(7)
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !7313
Since commit 07223c5c27 (Tutorial: Update Step 5 to work on Windows,
2020-02-18, v3.18.0-rc1~655^2) the logic does not work on non-Windows
platforms when cmake is re-run on an existing build tree. It is also
more complicated than we'd like for a tutorial example. Avoid the need
to consider the `m` library case by performing the check as C++.
Since `check_cxx_symbol_exists` cannot handle overloaded functions
like `exp` and `log`, check with `check_cxx_source_compiles` instead.
This also presents a more general-purpose example in the tutorial.
Fixes: #23524
Craig Scott