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diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/AUTOMOC.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/AUTOMOC.rst index 0171d20..61813be68 100644 --- a/Help/prop_tgt/AUTOMOC.rst +++ b/Help/prop_tgt/AUTOMOC.rst @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ Should the target be processed with automoc (for Qt projects). AUTOMOC is a boolean specifying whether CMake will handle the Qt ``moc`` preprocessor automatically, i.e. without having to use the -:module:`QT4_WRAP_CPP() <FindQt4>` or QT5_WRAP_CPP() macro. Currently Qt4 and Qt5 are -supported. +:module:`QT4_WRAP_CPP() <FindQt4>` or QT5_WRAP_CPP() macro. +Currently Qt4 and Qt5 are supported. When this property is set ``ON``, CMake will scan the header and source files at build time and invoke moc accordingly. @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ source files at build time and invoke moc accordingly. This allows the compiler to find the included ``moc_<basename>.cpp`` file regardless of the location the original source. + * For multi configuration generators, the include directory is + ``<AUTOGEN_BUILD_DIR>/include_<CONFIG>``. + * See :prop_tgt:`AUTOGEN_BUILD_DIR`. * If an ``#include`` statement like ``#include "<basename>.moc"`` is found, @@ -34,7 +37,7 @@ source files at build time and invoke moc accordingly. which is compiled as part of the target. * The custom directories with checksum - based names help to avoid name collisions for moc files with the same + based names help to avoid name collisions for ``moc`` files with the same ``<basename>``. * See :prop_tgt:`AUTOGEN_BUILD_DIR`. @@ -53,11 +56,11 @@ source files at build time and invoke moc accordingly. This property is initialized by the value of the :variable:`CMAKE_AUTOMOC` variable if it is set when a target is created. -Additional command line options for moc can be set via the +Additional command line options for ``moc`` can be set via the :prop_tgt:`AUTOMOC_MOC_OPTIONS` property. By enabling the :variable:`CMAKE_AUTOMOC_RELAXED_MODE` variable the -rules for searching the files which will be processed by moc can be relaxed. +rules for searching the files which will be processed by ``moc`` can be relaxed. See the documentation for this variable for more details. The global property :prop_gbl:`AUTOGEN_TARGETS_FOLDER` can be used to group the @@ -66,6 +69,10 @@ automoc targets together in an IDE, e.g. in MSVS. The global property :prop_gbl:`AUTOGEN_SOURCE_GROUP` can be used to group files generated by :prop_tgt:`AUTOMOC` together in an IDE, e.g. in MSVS. +The appearance of the strings ``Q_OBJECT`` or ``Q_GADGET`` in a source file +determines if it needs to be ``moc`` processed. To search for additional +strings, list them in :prop_tgt:`AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES`. + Additional ``moc`` dependency file names can be extracted from source code by using :prop_tgt:`AUTOMOC_DEPEND_FILTERS`. |