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| -rw-r--r-- | Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_FLAGS.rst | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_FLAGS_CONFIG.rst | 17 |
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_FLAGS.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_FLAGS.rst index 4b39b1d..747ac93 100644 --- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_FLAGS.rst +++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_FLAGS.rst @@ -1,9 +1,10 @@ CMAKE_<LANG>_FLAGS ------------------ -Flags for all build types. - -``<LANG>`` flags used regardless of the value of :variable:`CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE`. +Language-wide flags for language ``<LANG>`` used when building for +all configurations. These flags will be passed to all invocations +of the compiler. This includes invocations that drive compiling +and those that drive linking. For each language, if this variable is not defined, it is initialized and stored in the cache using values from environment variables in @@ -27,7 +28,10 @@ combination with CMake's builtin defaults for the toolchain: This value is a command-line string fragment. Therefore, multiple options should be separated by spaces, and options with spaces should be quoted. -The flags in this variable will be passed to the compiler before those -in the per-configuration :variable:`CMAKE_<LANG>_FLAGS_<CONFIG>` variant, -and before flags added by the :command:`add_compile_options` or -:command:`target_compile_options` commands. +The flags in this variable will be passed before those in the +per-configuration :variable:`CMAKE_<LANG>_FLAGS_<CONFIG>` variable. +On invocations driving compiling, flags from both variables will be passed +before flags added by commands such as :command:`add_compile_options` and +:command:`target_compile_options`. On invocations driving linking, +they will be passed before before flags added by commands such as +:command:`add_link_options` and :command:`target_link_options`. diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_FLAGS_CONFIG.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_FLAGS_CONFIG.rst index f0900fd..de7bd53 100644 --- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_FLAGS_CONFIG.rst +++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_FLAGS_CONFIG.rst @@ -1,9 +1,16 @@ CMAKE_<LANG>_FLAGS_<CONFIG> --------------------------- -Flags for language ``<LANG>`` when building for the ``<CONFIG>`` configuration. +Language-wide flags for language ``<LANG>`` used when building for +the ``<CONFIG>`` configuration. These flags will be passed to all +invocations of the compiler in the corresponding configuration. +This includes invocations that drive compiling and those that drive +linking. -The flags in this variable will be passed to the compiler after those -in the :variable:`CMAKE_<LANG>_FLAGS` variable, but before flags added -by the :command:`add_compile_options` or :command:`target_compile_options` -commands. +The flags in this variable will be passed after those in the +:variable:`CMAKE_<LANG>_FLAGS` variable. On invocations driving compiling, +flags from both variables will be passed before flags added by commands +such as :command:`add_compile_options` and :command:`target_compile_options`. +On invocations driving linking, they will be passed before before flags +added by commands such as :command:`add_link_options` and +:command:`target_link_options`. |