On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Lectem <lec...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I’m hurting an issue trying to hide dependencies from files that do not > need those. > > For example, I have a library that helps me decode some file, but I don’t > want this library headers to be available for every .cpp in my library but > one. > > > > For example what one may do is the following : > > > > #--------------------- > > add_library(mylib foo.cpp bar.cpp) > > target_link_libraries(mylib PRIVATE libonlyusefulforfoo) > > #--------------------- > > > > It works fine, but now bar.cpp can also include headers from > libonlyusefulforfoo. > > So what I tried was to use object libraries, but it has many > disadvantages : > > - I now have to duplicate dependencies for the object library and > mylib if they have include directories requirements or compile flags in > common > - An object library is a target… and I don’t want to add one target > per file that has special include directories > - An object library shows in IDEs, while I’d like the .cpp files to > stay in the same project. In visual the obj will be in my library but this > is not practical. > > I thought about source files properties, but unfortunately they do not > support include directories, so here is my question : > > > > *TL ;DR* > > Would it be possible/difficult to have a PRIVATE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES > property added for source files ? > > We already have COMPILE_FLAGS so why not include directories ? > > > > I know we can set include directories per directory, but I don’t think > that putting single .cpp files in seperate headers is good. > > > > Thanks, > > Lectem >
Did you check these? https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.10/command/target_include_directories.html https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.10/command/target_sources.html Jano
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