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NAME

       cmake-generator-expressions - CMake Generator Expressions

INTRODUCTION

       Generator  expressions are evaluated during build system generation to produce information
       specific to each build configuration.

       Generator expressions are allowed in the  context  of  many  target  properties,  such  as
       LINK_LIBRARIES,  INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES,  COMPILE_DEFINITIONS  and  others.  They may also be
       used when using commands to populate those properties,  such  as  target_link_libraries(),
       target_include_directories(), target_compile_definitions() and others.

       This  means  that  they  enable  conditional  linking,  conditional  definitions used when
       compiling, and conditional include directories and more.  The conditions may be  based  on
       the  build  configuration,  target properties, platform information or any other queryable
       information.

LOGICAL EXPRESSIONS

       Logical expressions are used to create conditional output.  The basic expressions are  the
       0  and  1  expressions.  Because other logical expressions evaluate to either 0 or 1, they
       can be composed to create conditional output:

          $<$<CONFIG:Debug>:DEBUG_MODE>

       expands to DEBUG_MODE when the Debug configuration  is  used,  and  otherwise  expands  to
       nothing.

       Available logical expressions are:

       $<BOOL:...>
              1 if the ... is true, else 0

       $<AND:?[,?]...>
              1 if all ? are 1, else 0

              The ? must always be either 0 or 1 in boolean expressions.

       $<OR:?[,?]...>
              0 if all ? are 0, else 1

       $<NOT:?>
              0 if ? is 1, else 1

       $<STREQUAL:a,b>
              1 if a is STREQUAL b, else 0

       $<EQUAL:a,b>
              1 if a is EQUAL b in a numeric comparison, else 0

       $<CONFIG:cfg>
              1  if config is cfg, else 0. This is a case-insensitive comparison.  The mapping in
              MAP_IMPORTED_CONFIG_<CONFIG> is also considered  by  this  expression  when  it  is
              evaluated on a property on an IMPORTED target.

       $<PLATFORM_ID:comp>
              1 if the CMake-id of the platform matches comp, otherwise 0.

       $<C_COMPILER_ID:comp>
              1 if the CMake-id of the C compiler matches comp, otherwise 0.

       $<CXX_COMPILER_ID:comp>
              1 if the CMake-id of the CXX compiler matches comp, otherwise 0.

       $<VERSION_GREATER:v1,v2>
              1 if v1 is a version greater than v2, else 0.

       $<VERSION_LESS:v1,v2>
              1 if v1 is a version less than v2, else 0.

       $<VERSION_EQUAL:v1,v2>
              1 if v1 is the same version as v2, else 0.

       $<C_COMPILER_VERSION:ver>
              1 if the version of the C compiler matches ver, otherwise 0.

       $<CXX_COMPILER_VERSION:ver>
              1 if the version of the CXX compiler matches ver, otherwise 0.

       $<TARGET_POLICY:pol>
              1  if  the  policy  pol was NEW when the 'head' target was created, else 0.  If the
              policy was not set, the warning message  for  the  policy  will  be  emitted.  This
              generator expression only works for a subset of policies.

       $<COMPILE_FEATURES:feature[,feature]...>
              1  if  all  of  the  feature  features  are  available for the 'head' target, and 0
              otherwise. If this expression is used while evaluating the link implementation of a
              target  and  if  any  dependency  transitively increases the required C_STANDARD or
              CXX_STANDARD  for  the  'head'   target,   an   error   is   reported.    See   the
              cmake-compile-features(7)  manual for information on compile features and a list of
              supported compilers.

       $<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:lang>
              1 when the language used for compilation unit  matches  lang,  otherwise  0.   This
              expression  used  to  specify  compile  options  for  source  files of a particular
              language in a target. For example,  to  specify  the  use  of  the  -fno-exceptions
              compile option (compiler id checks elided):

                 add_executable(myapp main.cpp foo.c bar.cpp)
                 target_compile_options(myapp
                   PRIVATE $<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CXX>:-fno-exceptions>
                 )

              This generator expression has limited use because it is not possible to use it with
              the Visual Studio generators.  Portable buildsystems would not use this expression,
              and would create separate libraries for each source file language instead:

                 add_library(myapp_c foo.c)
                 add_library(myapp_cxx foo.c)
                 target_compile_options(myapp_cxx PUBLIC -fno-exceptions)
                 add_executable(myapp main.cpp)
                 target_link_libraries(myapp myapp_c myapp_cxx)

              The  Makefile  and  Ninja  based generators can also use this expression to specify
              compile-language specific compile definitions and include directories:

                 add_executable(myapp main.cpp foo.c bar.cpp)
                 target_compile_definitions(myapp
                   PRIVATE $<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CXX>:COMPILING_CXX>
                 )
                 target_include_directories(myapp
                   PRIVATE $<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CXX>:/opt/foo/cxx_headers>
                 )

INFORMATIONAL EXPRESSIONS

       These expressions expand to some information. The information may be used directly, eg:

          include_directories(/usr/include/$<CXX_COMPILER_ID>/)

       expands to /usr/include/GNU/ or /usr/include/Clang/  etc,  depending  on  the  Id  of  the
       compiler.

       These expressions may also may be combined with logical expressions:

          $<$<VERSION_LESS:$<CXX_COMPILER_VERSION>,4.2.0>:OLD_COMPILER>

       expands to OLD_COMPILER if the CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION is less than 4.2.0.

       Available informational expressions are:

       $<CONFIGURATION>
              Configuration name. Deprecated. Use CONFIG instead.

       $<CONFIG>
              Configuration name

       $<PLATFORM_ID>
              The CMake-id of the platform.  See also the CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME variable.

       $<C_COMPILER_ID>
              The  CMake-id  of  the  C  compiler  used.   See  also the CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_ID
              variable.

       $<CXX_COMPILER_ID>
              The CMake-id of the CXX  compiler  used.   See  also  the  CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_ID
              variable.

       $<C_COMPILER_VERSION>
              The  version  of  the  C compiler used.  See also the CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_VERSION
              variable.

       $<CXX_COMPILER_VERSION>
              The version of the CXX compiler used.  See also  the  CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_VERSION
              variable.

       $<TARGET_FILE:tgt>
              Full path to main file (.exe, .so.1.2, .a) where tgt is the name of a target.

       $<TARGET_FILE_NAME:tgt>
              Name of main file (.exe, .so.1.2, .a).

       $<TARGET_FILE_DIR:tgt>
              Directory of main file (.exe, .so.1.2, .a).

       $<TARGET_LINKER_FILE:tgt>
              File used to link (.a, .lib, .so) where tgt is the name of a target.

       $<TARGET_LINKER_FILE_NAME:tgt>
              Name of file used to link (.a, .lib, .so).

       $<TARGET_LINKER_FILE_DIR:tgt>
              Directory of file used to link (.a, .lib, .so).

       $<TARGET_SONAME_FILE:tgt>
              File with soname (.so.3) where tgt is the name of a target.

       $<TARGET_SONAME_FILE_NAME:tgt>
              Name of file with soname (.so.3).

       $<TARGET_SONAME_FILE_DIR:tgt>
              Directory of with soname (.so.3).

       $<TARGET_PDB_FILE:tgt>
              Full  path  to  the  linker generated program database file (.pdb) where tgt is the
              name of a target.

              See  also  the  PDB_NAME  and  PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY  target  properties  and  their
              configuration         specific         variants        PDB_NAME_<CONFIG>        and
              PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_<CONFIG>.

       $<TARGET_PDB_FILE_NAME:tgt>
              Name of the linker generated program database file (.pdb).

       $<TARGET_PDB_FILE_DIR:tgt>
              Directory of the linker generated program database file (.pdb).

       $<TARGET_PROPERTY:tgt,prop>
              Value of the property prop on the target tgt.

              Note that tgt is not added as  a  dependency  of  the  target  this  expression  is
              evaluated on.

       $<TARGET_PROPERTY:prop>
              Value  of  the  property  prop  on  the target on which the generator expression is
              evaluated.

       $<INSTALL_PREFIX>
              Content of the install prefix when the target is exported via  install(EXPORT)  and
              empty otherwise.

       $<COMPILE_LANGUAGE>
              The compile language of source files when evaluating compile options. See the unary
              version for notes about portability of this generator expression.

OUTPUT EXPRESSIONS

       These expressions generate output, in some cases depending on an input. These  expressions
       may be combined with other expressions for information or logical comparison:

          -I$<JOIN:$<TARGET_PROPERTY:INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES>, -I>

       generates  a  string  of  the entries in the INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES target property with each
       entry preceeded by -I. Note that a more-complete use in this situation would require first
       checking if the INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES property is non-empty:

          $<$<BOOL:${prop}>:-I$<JOIN:${prop}, -I>>

       where ${prop} refers to a helper variable:

          set(prop "$<TARGET_PROPERTY:INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES>")

       Available output expressions are:

       $<0:...>
              Empty string (ignores ...)

       $<1:...>
              Content of ...

       $<JOIN:list,...>
              Joins the list with the content of ...

       $<ANGLE-R>
              A literal >. Used to compare strings which contain a > for example.

       $<COMMA>
              A literal ,. Used to compare strings which contain a , for example.

       $<SEMICOLON>
              A literal ;. Used to prevent list expansion on an argument with ;.

       $<TARGET_NAME:...>
              Marks  ... as being the name of a target.  This is required if exporting targets to
              multiple dependent export sets.  The ... must be a literal name of a target- it may
              not contain generator expressions.

       $<LINK_ONLY:...>
              Content  of  ... except when evaluated in a link interface while propagating Target
              Usage Requirements, in which case it is the empty string.  Intended for use only in
              an     INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES     target     property,     perhaps     via    the
              target_link_libraries() command, to specify private link dependencies without other
              usage requirements.

       $<INSTALL_INTERFACE:...>
              Content  of  ...  when  the  property  is exported using install(EXPORT), and empty
              otherwise.

       $<BUILD_INTERFACE:...>
              Content of ... when the property is exported using export(), or when the target  is
              used  by  another  target  in  the  same  buildsystem.  Expands to the empty string
              otherwise.

       $<LOWER_CASE:...>
              Content of ... converted to lower case.

       $<UPPER_CASE:...>
              Content of ... converted to upper case.

       $<MAKE_C_IDENTIFIER:...>
              Content of ... converted to a C identifier.

       $<TARGET_OBJECTS:objLib>
              List of objects resulting from build of objLib. objLib must be an  object  of  type
              OBJECT_LIBRARY.   This  expression may only be used in the sources of add_library()
              and add_executable() commands.

       $<SHELL_PATH:...>
              Content of ... converted to shell path style. For example, slashes are converted to
              backslashes  in  Windows  shells  and drive letters are converted to posix paths in
              MSYS shells. The ... must be an absolute path.

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