Cmake interface target are not shown in Solution explorer

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  • May 25, 2022 at 06:40 #32690
    oto313
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    Hello,

    when I create interface target in visualgdb it is not shown in Solution explorer. So I cannot see headers which are included in this target. How can I access these files inside interface target via Solution Explorer. I tried option “Header Files in Solution explorer” set to “All From Target Directory and Subdirectories”. But it did not help. Thanks for help

     

     

    PROJECT(bus LANGUAGES C CXX)

    add_library(bus INTERFACE)

    add_library(yrm::bus ALIAS bus)

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    May 25, 2022 at 08:08 #32694
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    Keymaster

    Hi,

    This is a known limitation of CMake. It indeed does not report the contents of interface targets via the mechanism used by VisualGDB.

    Please consider using object libraries instead – they work similar to interface targets, but their contents is actually shown.

    May 27, 2022 at 07:49 #32699
    oto313
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    But I have targets that have only header files. I cannot create object library without source files.

    May 29, 2022 at 10:00 #32704
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    Keymaster

    You can work around it by creating an empty .c file and referencing it from the targets that would otherwise have no sources. Another solution would be to patch CMake to make it report interface libraries together with the object libraries, but that could be rather complicated.

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