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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2017-11-27 14:00:11 (GMT) |
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| committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2017-11-27 14:00:44 (GMT) |
| commit | 1882ba2e0506deeb06f334b7459921286238d719 (patch) | |
| tree | 3ac503b319e019545d4e08cbfa131b967d00bd1b /Help | |
| parent | b67762ff3c4e24be75090cb2dca6c2b0e7f08dcb (diff) | |
| parent | 2ae880fa8f04a2026939b1df9613b64a301aa522 (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'extend-compile-language-genex'
2ae880fa Genex: Enable COMPILE_LANGUAGE for COMPILE_OPTIONS with Visual Studio
2b7d59f3 Genex: Enable COMPILE_LANGUAGE for file(GENERATE) with Visual Studio
0f6f7c8a Genex: Fix COMPILE_LANGUAGE messages to allow file(GENERATE) with Xcode
c5a82d0f Tests: Decouple COMPILE_LANGUAGE in file(GENERATE) from COMPILE_OPTIONS
25773650 Tests: Remove unnecessary result files from RunCMake.File_Generate
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Acked-by: Jason Juang <jasjuang@gmail.com>
Merge-request: !1511
Diffstat (limited to 'Help')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.rst | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/release/dev/extend-compile-language-genex.rst | 7 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.rst b/Help/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.rst index bddb174..dc5621a 100644 --- a/Help/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.rst +++ b/Help/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.rst @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Available logical expressions are: compile features and a list of supported compilers. ``$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:lang>`` ``1`` when the language used for compilation unit matches ``lang``, - otherwise ``0``. This expression used to specify compile options for + otherwise ``0``. This expression may be used to specify compile options for source files of a particular language in a target. For example, to specify the use of the ``-fno-exceptions`` compile option (compiler id checks elided): @@ -109,10 +109,12 @@ Available logical expressions are: PRIVATE $<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CXX>:-fno-exceptions> ) - This generator expression has limited use because it is not possible to - use it with the Visual Studio generators. Portable buildsystems would - not use this expression, and would create separate libraries for each - source file language instead: + Note that with :ref:`Visual Studio Generators` there is no way to represent + target-wide flags separately for ``C`` and ``CXX`` languages. Under these + generators, target-wide flags for both C and C++ sources will be evaluated + using ``CXX`` if there are any C++ sources and otherwise using ``C``. + A workaround is to create separate libraries for each source file language + instead: .. code-block:: cmake diff --git a/Help/release/dev/extend-compile-language-genex.rst b/Help/release/dev/extend-compile-language-genex.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0a0a669 --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/release/dev/extend-compile-language-genex.rst @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +extend-compile-language-genex +----------------------------- + +* The ``COMPILE_LANGUAGE`` :manual:`generator expression + <cmake-generator-expressions(7)>` may now be used with + :ref:`Visual Studio Generators` in :prop_tgt:`COMPILE_OPTIONS` + and :command:`file(GENERATE)`. |