Describe how to define a buildsystem of binary targets, how to
express dependencies between them, how to add build specifications,
how to specify usage requirements, transitive and compatible
propagation and the various pseudo targets.
There is not really any need to. Downstreams can either rely on it
being provided by CMake, or copy and distribute it.
Change the documented include for the find_dependency macro.
Teach the export command to handle export sets defined by invocations
of install(TARGETS ... EXPORT foo). This makes maintenance of targets
exported to both the build tree and install tree trivial.
Revise the organization introduced in commit 2c7cd95c (Help: Organize
top-level index, 2013-10-28) to drop "Other Manuals" and put them in
"Reference Manuals" because the distinction between them has blurred.
Perhaps a better breakdown of the reference manuals will emerge in
the future.
While at it, sort the reference manual toctree by name.
Manually update reStructuredText formatting. Use a definition list
for the possible if() tests supported. Add inline literal markup
as appropriate. Also make minor wording tweaks to make it flow
better with the new markup.
259bf09 Make the cmStrictTargetComparison operate on const cmTarget*.
8cc3cdb Help: Fix up the VISIBILITY_INLINES_HIDDEN docs.
1396ab8 Don't generate self-references for system include directories.
Since commit 5f5c92b9 (VS: Add internal APIs to find MSBuild,
devenv/VCExpress, and msdev, 2013-11-13) the VS generators have
known how to lookup the locations of their build tools directly.
Expose this information to CMake language code by defining new
variables to hold the paths to these tools.
98093c4 QtAutoUic: Add INTERFACE_AUTOUIC_OPTIONS target property.
02542b4 QtAutoUic: Handle new -include command line parameter.
1242f4e Genex: Add {UPPER,LOWER}_CASE and MAKE_C_IDENTIFIER.
754b321 QtAutogen: Use config without prefix in map key.
5838aba Export: Report error on relative include with genex.
7a3e45b Export: Prefix relative items with genexes in INSTALL_INTERFACE.
f088a32 Export: Process INSTALL_INTERFACE in INCLUDES DESTINATION.
9eedc85 Export: Process relative includes after genex evaluation.
80790f3 Export: Test existing behavior of exporting includes with genexes.
38afc82 target_include_directories: Allow relative path with genex
Document PDB_NAME and PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY as applying only to shared
libraries and executables. Add an explicit note to explain why they
do not work for static libraries.
Transitively consume the property from linked dependents.
Implement configuration-specific support by following the pattern
set out for compile definitions and includes in cmQtAutoGenerators.
Implement support for origin-tracking with CMAKE_DEBUG_TARGET_PROPERTIES.
This is motivated by the needs of KDE, which provides a separate
translation system based on gettext instead of the Qt linguist
translation system. The Qt uic tool provides command line options
for configuring the method used to translate text, and to add an
include directive to the generated file to provide the method.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.frameworks/7930/focus=7992
Implement the interface to provide the uic options as a usage-requirement
on the KI18n target, as designed for KDE.
Diagnostics which check the sanity of exported include paths
previously skipped over any path containing a generator expression.
Introduce a policy to issue an error message in such cases.
The export files created in the OLD behavior are not usable, because
they contain relative paths or paths to the source or build location
which are not suitable for use on installation. CMake will report an
error on import.
Move "extra" generators to their own section instead of duplicating them
for each corresponding main generator. Divide the list of main
generators into command-line and IDE sections and sort the names within
each section. Document the environment from which each kind of
generator may be used.
Add a section to each "extra" generator documenting which main
generators may be used with it.
Use definition lists instead of a preformatted block to enumerate
the genex documentation.
Consistently capitalize the description.
Use ``...`` to format genex parameters in the description.
Turn references to commands into links.
Add high level documentation about the motivation for generator
expressions.
Regroup expressions into subsections for different genex types. Add
a high-level description and example of the expressions in each
section.
Explode the documentation for filesystem artifacts, instead of only
referring to the variations.
This variable can be useful in cross-compiling contexts where the
sysroot is read-only or where the sysroot should otherwise remain
pristine.
If the new CMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX variable is set, it is used instead
of CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX when generating the installation rules in
cmake_install.cmake.
This way, the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX variable
always refers to the installation prefix on the target device, regardless
of whether host==target.
If any -rpath paths passed to the linker contain the CMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX,
the matching path fragments are replaced with the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.
Matching paths in the -rpath-link are not transformed.
The cross-prefix usr-move workaround is assumed not to require extension
regarding CMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX. The staging area is a single prefix, so
there is no scope for cross-prefix symlinks. The CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
is still used to determine the workaround path, and that variable
remains the relevant one even if CMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX is used. If the
generated export files are deployed to the target, the workaround
will still be in place, and still be employed if required.
a990722 eclipse: Support custom natures via a global property
51726cc eclipse: Add natures for Eclipse based on enabled languages
4a352d4 Notify extra generators about languages
7cd65c9 Add CMAKE_SYSROOT variable to set --sysroot when cross compiling.
5096967 Allow toolchain files to specify an external toolchain.
76552d5 Add compiler target compile options.
f41ecd1 CMakeDetermineCompilerId: Look for internal file only on host
As CMAKE_ROOT_FIND_PATH can be a list, a new CMAKE_SYSROOT is
introduced, which is never a list.
The contents of this variable is passed to supporting compilers
as --sysroot. It is also accounted for when processing implicit
link directories reported by the compiler, and when generating
RPATH information.
Clang can compile code, but uses the gcc tools for other tasks such
as linking. The -gcc-toolchain option can be used for that, but
generalize so that other compilers can be treated the same.
If such a location is specified, use it as a hint for finding
the binutils executables.
For clang, this allows passing -target <triple> to the compiler, and
for qcc, -V<arch> using toolchain files containing something like
set(triple arm-linux-gnueabihf)
set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER "/usr/bin/clang")
set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER_TARGET ${triple})
set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER "/usr/bin/clang++")
set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_TARGET ${triple})
or
set(arch gcc_ntoarmv7le)
set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER /opt/qnx650/host/linux/x86/usr/bin/qcc)
set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER_TARGET ${arch})
set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER /opt/qnx650/host/linux/x86/usr/bin/QCC)
set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_TARGET ${arch})
Both clang and qcc are inherently cross compiler( driver)s.
When cross-compiling with clang, use the CMAKE_${lang}_COMPILER_TARGET
as the _CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_PREFIX to find the appropriate binutils.
When cross-compiling with QNX qcc, use the CMAKE_${lang}_COMPILER_TARGET
to set the appropriate _CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_PREFIX.
4cce44b Help: Document the CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM variable in more detail
558c74d VS: Switch to internal CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM lookup by generators
5229f2d Tests: Do not use an explicit make program for VS generators
72dd738 Tests: Fix MFC test heuristic for empty CMAKE_TEST_MAKEPROGRAM
fd6076d Tests: Pass CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM instead of --build-makeprogram
68031ab Tests: Configure SubProject-Stage2 test more robustly
003d10c Tests: Simplify VSExcludeFromDefaultBuild configuration
e47d934 Tests: Simplify VSProjectInSubdir configuration
e965cb1 Tests: Simplify CTest.BuildCommand.ProjectInSubdir configuration
72bf255 Tests: Pass --build-options to every test
4d1d772 ctest: Teach --build-options to allow zero options
96966b5 ctest: Make the --build-makeprogram optional for --build-and-test
91a0211 Simplify some calls to cmGlobalGenerator::Build
123a060 Teach GenerateBuildCommand to find its own make program
5f5c92b VS: Add internal APIs to find MSBuild, devenv/VCExpress, and msdev
4ac75fd Prefer CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM over CMAKE_BUILD_TOOL (#14548)
...
Teach add_custom_target to check the policy too. Extend the policy to
disallow reserved target names that we use for builtin targets like
"all".
Extend the RunCMake.CMP0037 test to cover these cases.
Add notes about macro arguments in the foreach, if, and list commands.
Add a section to the macro command documentation explaining in detail
how macro arguments are not variables.
GenerateBuildCommand now knows how to lookup CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM or
choose a generator-provided default build tool. Therefore the
--build-makeprogram can now be optional and simply override the
default selection when provided.
Note that with --build-nocmake we now need to load the cache in order to
make the CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM entry available to GenerateBuildCommand.
Historically these were both added for the Makefile and Visual Studio
generators, respectively. Later the VS generators started using the
CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM cache entry to find the IDE build tool, and the
CMAKE_BUILD_TOOL was simply set as an alias.
Fix the documentation to explain that CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is the modern
variable and that CMAKE_BUILD_TOOL is the compatibility alias, not the
other way around. Replace uses of CMAKE_BUILD_TOOL with
CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM in CMake-provided modules. Nothing needs to lookup
CMAKE_BUILD_TOOL in the cache, so simply set it as a normal variable.
Re-implement the build_command() command to use "cmake --build" instead
of generating a native build tool invocation directly. This command
will internally invoke the proper native build tool.
This avoids requiring cmGlobalGenerator::GenerateBuildCommand to produce
a string so that it can be later refactored to produce a vector with no
quoting or escaping. It will also allow us to later teach CMake to
delay the decision about which build tool to invoke until after the
project build system is generated to disk. For example, on Visual
Studio 10 and above the preferred command-line tool is MSBuild, but we
need to fall back to devenv if the .sln has Intel Fortran .vfproj files.
Refactor edit_cache tool selection to ask each global generator for its
preference. Teach the Ninja generator to always use cmake-gui because
Ninja by design cannot run interactive terminal dialogs like ccmake.
Teach the Makefile generator to use cmake-gui when also using an "extra"
generator whose IDE has no terminal to run ccmake, and otherwise fall
back to CMAKE_EDIT_COMMAND selection for normal Makefile build systems.
The cmake-language.7 manual now documents comment syntax. Reference it
from cmake-developer.7 when discussing how to add comment-enclosed
documentation to modules.
State in the execute_process how COMMAND arguments are passed to
the child. Add a note at the end about how the command differs
from add_custom_*().
Suggested-by: Alan W. Irwin
Apply the changes from commit 603fe925 (Fix summary documentation of
INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES, 2013-11-04) and commit 0aa97b6b (Fix spelling
in INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES documentation, 2013-11-04) to the new
location of the same documentation.
b51696f CMP0022: Update target_link_libraries plain signature documentation
25b7f87 Merge branch 'policy-CMP0022-fixes' into policy-CMP0022-fixes-for-master
0a561a0 CMP0022: Warn about a given target at most once
23d21b7 Do not export INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES from non-linkable targets
ef10b87 CMP0022: Plain target_link_libraries must populate link interface
0e06788 CMP0022: Add test for target_link_libraries plain signature
c0f4a61 CMP0022: Add unit test for null pointer check and message.
4b0cfa7 Merge branch 'output-CMP0022-entries' into policy-CMP0022-fixes
Make the documentation change made by commit ef10b87c (CMP0022: Plain
target_link_libraries must populate link interface, 2013-11-02) in the
new location for the same documentation.
