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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2013-12-02 16:29:29 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2013-12-02 16:32:41 (GMT) |
| commit | c0897cfad0c8f1c7671ecc8b24bbfd189a9237de (patch) | |
| tree | 6d21e290c724077ba6f7dd9c81a755444fc764c1 /Help/variable | |
| parent | 09c05f37cf6c0cba643492aa4a597d6d465a8f32 (diff) | |
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Help: Document PDB behavior w.r.t. static libraries explicitly (#14600)
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.
Diffstat (limited to 'Help/variable')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/variable/CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/variable/CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_CONFIG.rst | 3 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY.rst index b38f0ec..763bcb3 100644 --- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY.rst +++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY.rst @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY -------------------------- -Where to put all the MS debug symbol files from linker. +Output directory for MS debug symbol ``.pdb`` files generated by the +linker for executable and shared library targets. This variable is used to initialize the :prop_tgt:`PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY` property on all the targets. See that target property for additional diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_CONFIG.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_CONFIG.rst index 2d7341d..4d18eec 100644 --- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_CONFIG.rst +++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_CONFIG.rst @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_<CONFIG> ----------------------------------- -Per-configuration output directory for MS debug symbols ``.pdb`` files. +Per-configuration output directory for MS debug symbol ``.pdb`` files +generated by the linker for executable and shared library targets. This is a per-configuration version of :variable:`CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY`. This variable is used to initialize the |