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CMake Target Properties

October 2, 2012

A few months back, I wrote what I called a “tech-nish blog post” about obtaining the values of all the presently defined CMake variables. This is a companion post that does the same thing for target properties.

 

Here’s a CMake language function to print out all the target properties of a given CMake target. Try it out: come on, you know you want to…

 

function(echo_target_property tgt prop)
  # v for value, d for defined, s for set
  get_property(v TARGET ${tgt} PROPERTY ${prop})
  get_property(d TARGET ${tgt} PROPERTY ${prop} DEFINED)
  get_property(s TARGET ${tgt} PROPERTY ${prop} SET)
 
  # only produce output for values that are set
  if(s)
    message("tgt='${tgt}' prop='${prop}'")
    message("  value='${v}'")
    message("  defined='${d}'")
    message("  set='${s}'")
    message("")
  endif()
endfunction()
 
function(echo_target tgt)
  if(NOT TARGET ${tgt})
    message("There is no target named '${tgt}'")
    return()
  endif()
 
  set(props
DEBUG_OUTPUT_NAME
DEBUG_POSTFIX
RELEASE_OUTPUT_NAME
RELEASE_POSTFIX
ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_DEBUG
ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_RELEASE
ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_NAME
ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_NAME_DEBUG
ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_NAME_RELEASE
AUTOMOC
AUTOMOC_MOC_OPTIONS
BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH
BUNDLE
BUNDLE_EXTENSION
COMPILE_DEFINITIONS
COMPILE_DEFINITIONS_DEBUG
COMPILE_DEFINITIONS_RELEASE
COMPILE_FLAGS
DEBUG_POSTFIX
RELEASE_POSTFIX
DEFINE_SYMBOL
ENABLE_EXPORTS
EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL
EchoString
FOLDER
FRAMEWORK
Fortran_FORMAT
Fortran_MODULE_DIRECTORY
GENERATOR_FILE_NAME
GNUtoMS
HAS_CXX
IMPLICIT_DEPENDS_INCLUDE_TRANSFORM
IMPORTED
IMPORTED_CONFIGURATIONS
IMPORTED_IMPLIB
IMPORTED_IMPLIB_DEBUG
IMPORTED_IMPLIB_RELEASE
IMPORTED_LINK_DEPENDENT_LIBRARIES
IMPORTED_LINK_DEPENDENT_LIBRARIES_DEBUG
IMPORTED_LINK_DEPENDENT_LIBRARIES_RELEASE
IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_LANGUAGES
IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_LANGUAGES_DEBUG
IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_LANGUAGES_RELEASE
IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES
IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES_DEBUG
IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES_RELEASE
IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_MULTIPLICITY
IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_MULTIPLICITY_DEBUG
IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_MULTIPLICITY_RELEASE
IMPORTED_LOCATION
IMPORTED_LOCATION_DEBUG
IMPORTED_LOCATION_RELEASE
IMPORTED_NO_SONAME
IMPORTED_NO_SONAME_DEBUG
IMPORTED_NO_SONAME_RELEASE
IMPORTED_SONAME
IMPORTED_SONAME_DEBUG
IMPORTED_SONAME_RELEASE
IMPORT_PREFIX
IMPORT_SUFFIX
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES
INSTALL_NAME_DIR
INSTALL_RPATH
INSTALL_RPATH_USE_LINK_PATH
INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION
INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION_DEBUG
INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION_RELEASE
LABELS
LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_DEBUG
LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_RELEASE
LIBRARY_OUTPUT_NAME
LIBRARY_OUTPUT_NAME_DEBUG
LIBRARY_OUTPUT_NAME_RELEASE
LINKER_LANGUAGE
LINK_DEPENDS
LINK_FLAGS
LINK_FLAGS_DEBUG
LINK_FLAGS_RELEASE
LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES
LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES_DEBUG
LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES_RELEASE
LINK_INTERFACE_MULTIPLICITY
LINK_INTERFACE_MULTIPLICITY_DEBUG
LINK_INTERFACE_MULTIPLICITY_RELEASE
LINK_SEARCH_END_STATIC
LINK_SEARCH_START_STATIC
LOCATION
LOCATION_DEBUG
LOCATION_RELEASE
MACOSX_BUNDLE
MACOSX_BUNDLE_INFO_PLIST
MACOSX_FRAMEWORK_INFO_PLIST
MAP_IMPORTED_CONFIG_DEBUG
MAP_IMPORTED_CONFIG_RELEASE
OSX_ARCHITECTURES
OSX_ARCHITECTURES_DEBUG
OSX_ARCHITECTURES_RELEASE
OUTPUT_NAME
OUTPUT_NAME_DEBUG
OUTPUT_NAME_RELEASE
POST_INSTALL_SCRIPT
PREFIX
PRE_INSTALL_SCRIPT
PRIVATE_HEADER
PROJECT_LABEL
PUBLIC_HEADER
RESOURCE
RULE_LAUNCH_COMPILE
RULE_LAUNCH_CUSTOM
RULE_LAUNCH_LINK
RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_DEBUG
RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_RELEASE
RUNTIME_OUTPUT_NAME
RUNTIME_OUTPUT_NAME_DEBUG
RUNTIME_OUTPUT_NAME_RELEASE
SKIP_BUILD_RPATH
SOURCES
SOVERSION
STATIC_LIBRARY_FLAGS
STATIC_LIBRARY_FLAGS_DEBUG
STATIC_LIBRARY_FLAGS_RELEASE
SUFFIX
TYPE
VERSION
VS_DOTNET_REFERENCES
VS_GLOBAL_WHATEVER
VS_GLOBAL_KEYWORD
VS_GLOBAL_PROJECT_TYPES
VS_KEYWORD
VS_SCC_AUXPATH
VS_SCC_LOCALPATH
VS_SCC_PROJECTNAME
VS_SCC_PROVIDER
VS_WINRT_EXTENSIONS
VS_WINRT_REFERENCES
WIN32_EXECUTABLE
XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_WHATEVER
)
 
  message("======================== ${tgt} ========================")
  foreach(p ${props})
    echo_target_property("${t}" "${p}")
  endforeach()
  message("")
endfunction()
 
 
function(echo_targets)
  set(tgts ${ARGV})
  foreach(t ${tgts})
    echo_target("${t}")
  endforeach()
endfunction()
 
 
set(targets
  CMakeLib
  cmake-gui
  MathFunctions
  Tutorial
  vtkCommonCore
)
 
echo_targets(${targets})

 

Some things to notice about this code:

It lists targets from different projects in the “targets” variable. That’s ok because echo_target uses “if(NOT TARGET” to avoid trying to access a target that is not defined. You can save this code out as a CMake script, and then just include the script in a CMakeLists file, and use the echo_targets function with your own project-specific list of targets.

The echo_target_property function uses get_property in 3 different ways to get the value, the defined-ness and the set-ness of the property. Sometimes you just want to know if a target has a given property, and sometimes you need to know its actual value. The defined-ness of a property lets you know whether CMake has a definition (and usually a documentation string) for it.

echo_target_property only shows the values for properties that have been set.

echo_target defines a props variable that lists all the common target properties that CMake knows about. You may have additional properties you are interested in: if so, just add them to the list.

Any questions? 😉
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Software Process

1 comment to CMake Target Properties

  1. There is a bug that prevents it from working. To fix it, replace
    echo_target_property(“${t}” “${p}”)
    with
    echo_target_property(“${tgt}” “${p}”)

    Reply

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