ENH: Create Info.plist files in OS X Frameworks

A Mac OS X Framework should provide a Resources/Info.plist file
containing meta-data about the framework.  This change generates a
default Info.plist for frameworks and provides an interface for users to
customize it.

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmTarget.cxx b/Source/cmTarget.cxx
index e4d7307..0fbae69 100644
--- a/Source/cmTarget.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmTarget.cxx
@@ -589,6 +589,26 @@ void cmTarget::DefineProperties(cmake *cm)
      "hard-code all the settings instead of using the target properties.");
 
   cm->DefineProperty
+    ("MACOSX_FRAMEWORK_INFO_PLIST", cmProperty::TARGET,
+     "Specify a custom Info.plist template for a Mac OS X Framework.",
+     "An library target with FRAMEWORK enabled will be built as a "
+     "framework on Mac OS X.  "
+     "By default its Info.plist file is created by configuring a template "
+     "called MacOSXFrameworkInfo.plist.in located in the CMAKE_MODULE_PATH.  "
+     "This property specifies an alternative template file name which "
+     "may be a full path.\n"
+     "The following target properties may be set to specify content to "
+     "be configured into the file:\n"
+     "  MACOSX_FRAMEWORK_ICON_FILE\n"
+     "  MACOSX_FRAMEWORK_IDENTIFIER\n"
+     "  MACOSX_FRAMEWORK_SHORT_VERSION_STRING\n"
+     "  MACOSX_FRAMEWORK_BUNDLE_VERSION\n"
+     "CMake variables of the same name may be set to affect all targets "
+     "in a directory that do not have each specific property set.  "
+     "If a custom Info.plist is specified by this property it may of course "
+     "hard-code all the settings instead of using the target properties.");
+
+  cm->DefineProperty
     ("ENABLE_EXPORTS", cmProperty::TARGET,
      "Specify whether an executable exports symbols for loadable modules.",
      "Normally an executable does not export any symbols because it is "