TL;DR:
- For a project thing I get thingTargets.cmake when I install EXPORT it
- thingTargets.cmake sets _IMPORT_PREFIX
- thingTargets.cmake loads files thingTargets-*.cmake
Can I create and install thingTargets-someName.cmake which uses
_IMPORT_PREFIX to "hook" into above mechanism? Or is this likely to break /
change in the future?
Longer version:
I really like that you can use the exported targets of cmake even when
still in a staging directory and not installed. Example:
# in thing project
mkdir thing-build; cd thing-build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=""
make
# creates /path/to/staging/lib/cmake/thing/lib{Config,Targets}.cmake and
friends
make install DESTDIR=/path/to/staging
# in user project
mkdir user-build
cmake .. -Dthing_DIR=/path/to/staging/lib/cmake/thing
make # correctly uses libraries and headers from /path/to/staging/
Looking at /path/to/staging/lib/cmake/thing/libTargets.cmake I can see that
it calculates an _IMPORT_PREFIX variable (in this case to /path/to/staging/
while not yet installed). Also it loads files named libTargets-*.cmake (of
which there's only one for me, namely libTargets-noconfig.cmake).
Can I install a file libTargets-someName.cmake? In this file I'd have
access to the _IMPORT_PREFIX variable to e.g. set paths:
target_link_options(thing::lib
INTERFACE
-T ${_IMPORT_PREFIX}/share/link.ld)
Larger example at
https://github.com/musteresel/cmake-multiple-example-research
Best,
Daniel
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