LINK_OPTIONS: Add new family of properties

This family enable to manage link flags

Three new properties:
* directory property: LINK_OPTIONS
* target properties: LINK_OPTIONS and INTERFACE_LINK_OPTIONS

Two new commands
* add_link_options(): to populate directory property
* target_link_options(): to populate target properties

Fixes: #16543

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmLocalGenerator.cxx b/Source/cmLocalGenerator.cxx
index a3f4a8f..072b958 100644
--- a/Source/cmLocalGenerator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmLocalGenerator.cxx
@@ -1042,6 +1042,10 @@ void cmLocalGenerator::GetTargetFlags(
           linkFlags += " ";
         }
       }
+      std::vector<std::string> opts;
+      target->GetLinkOptions(opts, config, linkLanguage);
+      // LINK_OPTIONS are escaped.
+      this->AppendCompileOptions(linkFlags, opts);
       if (pcli) {
         this->OutputLinkLibraries(pcli, linkLineComputer, linkLibs,
                                   frameworkPath, linkPath);
@@ -1113,6 +1117,10 @@ void cmLocalGenerator::GetTargetFlags(
           linkFlags += " ";
         }
       }
+      std::vector<std::string> opts;
+      target->GetLinkOptions(opts, config, linkLanguage);
+      // LINK_OPTIONS are escaped.
+      this->AppendCompileOptions(linkFlags, opts);
     } break;
     default:
       break;