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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2021-11-03 19:51:35 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2021-11-03 20:17:17 (GMT) |
| commit | 001870d451d965a2cc4a30a89ed23e69bcd70b5e (patch) | |
| tree | 32c62766da2d780c8a86c6fc2bf8b3a25cbb6521 /Help/command | |
| parent | f65cebf51a2cf3af2017fd9b03c685c77da00c74 (diff) | |
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Help: Clarify TARGET_RUNTIME_DLLS behavior on imported targets
This generator expression does not report the locations of `.dll`
files on imported targets with the `UNKNWON` type, since their
`IMPORTED_LOCATION` refers to the import library and not the DLL.
Fixes: #22845
Diffstat (limited to 'Help/command')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/command/add_library.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Help/command/add_library.rst b/Help/command/add_library.rst index dfc6500..1235155 100644 --- a/Help/command/add_library.rst +++ b/Help/command/add_library.rst @@ -166,6 +166,8 @@ itself and is not included as a target in the generated buildsystem. call are ``PRIVATE`` to the interface library and do not appear in its :prop_tgt:`INTERFACE_SOURCES` target property. +.. _`add_library imported libraries`: + Imported Libraries ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ @@ -205,7 +207,8 @@ The ``<type>`` must be one of: :prop_tgt:`IMPORTED_IMPLIB_<CONFIG>`) specifies the location of the DLL import library file (``.lib`` or ``.dll.a``) on disk, and the ``IMPORTED_LOCATION`` is the location of the ``.dll`` runtime - library (and is optional). + library (and is optional, but needed by the :genex:`TARGET_RUNTIME_DLLS` + generator expression). Additional usage requirements may be specified in ``INTERFACE_*`` properties. |