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Enri Gaci
Enri Gaci

Reputation: 21

Target <target name> OUTPUT_NAME depends on itself

I am using python's cmake-converter in order to generate cmake files from a .sln project.

In visual studio I am trying to generate the cmake files for WSL-GCC-Debug configuration.

When Visual Studio starts the CMake generation I get this error

[CMake] CMake Error at <path to Example>/CMakeLists.txt:220 (add_library):

[CMake] Target '<Example>' OUTPUT_NAME depends on itself.

CMakeLists.txt looks like this:

1 set(PROJECT_NAME Example)
2 set(no_group_source_files
...
100 Example.h
...
180 )
181 source_group("" FILES ${no_group_source_files})
182 set(ALL_FILES
183    ${no_group_source_files}
184 )
...
220 add_library(${PROJECT_NAME} SHARED ${ALL_FILES})

There was an open issue about this here but I don't see an answer that helps my case

I am new to cmake and trying to debug this. Does anyone have any idea why this happens and how I can fix it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 847

Answers (1)

Enri Gaci
Enri Gaci

Reputation: 21

Eventually I found this solution to the problem.

Edit Default.cmake in CMake folder (CMake/Default.cmake)

Change

create_property_reader("TARGET_NAME")

To some other name except TARGET_NAME i.e

create_property_reader("TARGET_NAME_1")

Upvotes: 1

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