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Reputation: 4816

CMake - how to set multiple compile definitions for target executable?

I'm trying to set multiple compile definitions for one of the executables I'm trying to compile in CMake (in order to activate macros used for debugging). Here's what I tried:

add_executable (trie_io_test trie_io_test.c trie.c word_list.c)
    set_target_properties(
            trie_io_test
            PROPERTIES
            COMPILE_DEFINITIONS UNIT_TESTING=1)
    set_target_properties(
            trie_io_test
            PROPERTIES
            COMPILE_DEFINITIONS IO_TEST=1)

Unfortunately this causes only the IO_TEST to be defined.

I also tried the following:

add_executable (trie_io_test trie_io_test.c trie.c word_list.c)
    set_target_properties(
            trie_io_test
            PROPERTIES
            COMPILE_DEFINITIONS UNIT_TESTING=1 IO_TEST=1)

But this, on the other hand, causes CMake error.

How to set both of these definitions for the executable I'm trying to build?

Upvotes: 35

Views: 67570

Answers (3)

Gert-Jan de Vos
Gert-Jan de Vos

Reputation: 11

This does work:

add_executable (trie_io_test trie_io_test.c trie.c word_list.c)
set_target_properties(
    trie_io_test
    PROPERTIES
    COMPILE_DEFINITIONS "UNIT_TESTING=1;IO_TEST=1"
   )

No clue why this makes a difference. It was my understanding that in cmake, white space separated lists are equivalent to semicolon separated strings.

Upvotes: 1

Chen
Chen

Reputation: 104

I find this can work for you:

add_executable (trie_io_test trie_io_test.c trie.c word_list.c)
set_target_properties(
    trie_io_test
    PROPERTIES
    COMPILE_DEFINITIONS UNIT_TESTING=1
    COMPILE_DEFINITIONS IO_TEST=1
   )

Just by adding another COMPILE_DEFINITIONS :P

Upvotes: 3

Fraser
Fraser

Reputation: 78320

You want target_compile_definitions instead of set_target_properties:

target_compile_definitions(trie_io_test PRIVATE UNIT_TESTING=1 IO_TEST=1)

Upvotes: 71

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