summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SOURCES.rst
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SOURCES.rst')
-rw-r--r--Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SOURCES.rst13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SOURCES.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SOURCES.rst
index fb28231..a224b68 100644
--- a/Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SOURCES.rst
+++ b/Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SOURCES.rst
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
INTERFACE_SOURCES
-----------------
-List of interface sources to pass to the compiler.
+List of interface sources to compile into consuming targets.
Targets may populate this property to publish the sources
-for consuming targets to compile. Consuming
-targets can add entries to their own :prop_tgt:`SOURCES` property
-such as ``$<TARGET_PROPERTY:foo,INTERFACE_SOURCES>`` to use the
-sources specified in the interface of ``foo``.
+for consuming targets to compile. The :command:`target_sources` command
+populates this property with values given to the ``PUBLIC`` and
+``INTERFACE`` keywords. Projects may also get and set the property directly.
+
+When target dependencies are specified using :command:`target_link_libraries`,
+CMake will read this property from all target dependencies to determine the
+sources of the consumer.
Contents of ``INTERFACE_SOURCES`` may use "generator expressions"
with the syntax ``$<...>``. See the :manual:`cmake-generator-expressions(7)`