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| author | Robert Maynard <robert.maynard@kitware.com> | 2017-03-23 13:32:08 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2017-04-18 15:36:10 (GMT) |
| commit | eec93bceec5411e4409b5e3ee5dc301fca6fcbfd (patch) | |
| tree | 58758ce2d61173c52559f55c0979236cafa7f969 /Help/manual/cmake-buildsystem.7.rst | |
| parent | 93c89bc75ceee599ba7c08b8fe1ac5104942054f (diff) | |
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Allow OBJECT libraries to be installed, exported, and imported
Teach install() and export() to handle the actual object files.
Disallow this on Xcode with multiple architectures because it
still cannot be cleanly supported there.
Co-Author: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake-buildsystem.7.rst b/Help/manual/cmake-buildsystem.7.rst index 65d87bf..95f5b87 100644 --- a/Help/manual/cmake-buildsystem.7.rst +++ b/Help/manual/cmake-buildsystem.7.rst @@ -125,10 +125,10 @@ The object files collection can be used as source inputs to other targets: add_executable(test_exe $<TARGET_OBJECTS:archive> test.cpp) -``OBJECT`` libraries may only be used locally as sources in a buildsystem -- -they may not be installed, exported, or used in the right hand side of +``OBJECT`` libraries may not be used in the right hand side of :command:`target_link_libraries`. They also may not be used as the ``TARGET`` -in a use of the :command:`add_custom_command(TARGET)` command signature. +in a use of the :command:`add_custom_command(TARGET)` command signature. They +may be installed, and will be exported as an INTERFACE library. Although object libraries may not be named directly in calls to the :command:`target_link_libraries` command, they can be "linked" |