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| author | Marc Chevrier <marc.chevrier@gmail.com> | 2018-09-14 15:48:20 (GMT) |
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| committer | Craig Scott <craig.scott@crascit.com> | 2018-09-25 13:59:58 (GMT) |
| commit | a71caab46b205c2b0367c2b11c12a9b55b09bcca (patch) | |
| tree | b19ad25b6e8b87bc0e35eb7c93df8afcb6fde594 /Help/prop_dir | |
| parent | 5ca130e22394978814a9e59418529a7a3e1a61bd (diff) | |
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LINK_DIRECTORIES: Add new properties and commands
These new capabilities enable to manage link directories
Two new properties:
* target properties: LINK_DIRECTORIES and INTERFACE_LINK_DIRECTORIES
One new command
* target_link_directories(): to populate target properties
Fixes: #17215
Diffstat (limited to 'Help/prop_dir')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/prop_dir/LINK_DIRECTORIES.rst | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Help/prop_dir/LINK_DIRECTORIES.rst b/Help/prop_dir/LINK_DIRECTORIES.rst index fa37576..f9fb815 100644 --- a/Help/prop_dir/LINK_DIRECTORIES.rst +++ b/Help/prop_dir/LINK_DIRECTORIES.rst @@ -3,6 +3,15 @@ LINK_DIRECTORIES List of linker search directories. -This read-only property specifies the list of directories given so far -to the link_directories command. It is intended for debugging -purposes. +This property holds a :ref:`;-list <CMake Language Lists>` of directories +and is typically populated using the :command:`link_directories` command. +It gets its initial value from its parent directory, if it has one. + +The directory property is used to initialize the :prop_tgt:`LINK_DIRECTORIES` +target property when a target is created. That target property is used +by the generators to set the library search directories for the linker. + +Contents of ``LINK_DIRECTORIES`` may use "generator expressions" with +the syntax ``$<...>``. See the :manual:`cmake-generator-expressions(7)` +manual for available expressions. See the :manual:`cmake-buildsystem(7)` +manual for more on defining buildsystem properties. |