diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Help/prop_tgt/LOCATION.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/prop_tgt/LOCATION.rst | 27 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/LOCATION.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/LOCATION.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bdcb1df --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/prop_tgt/LOCATION.rst @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +LOCATION +-------- + +Read-only location of a target on disk. + +For an imported target, this read-only property returns the value of +the LOCATION_<CONFIG> property for an unspecified configuration +<CONFIG> provided by the target. + +For a non-imported target, this property is provided for compatibility +with CMake 2.4 and below. It was meant to get the location of an +executable target's output file for use in add_custom_command. The +path may contain a build-system-specific portion that is replaced at +build time with the configuration getting built (such as +"$(ConfigurationName)" in VS). In CMake 2.6 and above +add_custom_command automatically recognizes a target name in its +COMMAND and DEPENDS options and computes the target location. In +CMake 2.8.4 and above add_custom_command recognizes generator +expressions to refer to target locations anywhere in the command. +Therefore this property is not needed for creating custom commands. + +Do not set properties that affect the location of a target after +reading this property. These include properties whose names match +"(RUNTIME|LIBRARY|ARCHIVE)_OUTPUT_(NAME|DIRECTORY)(_<CONFIG>)?", +"(IMPLIB_)?(PREFIX|SUFFIX)", or "LINKER_LANGUAGE". Failure to follow +this rule is not diagnosed and leaves the location of the target +undefined. |