Joerg Bornemann d963b87ab4 Autogen: Reduce the number of targets under Visual Studio
Commit 680fbb112a (Autogen: Enable depfile support for Visual Studio and
Xcode generators) disabled the PRE_BUILD optimization when a depfile is
used, because a PRE_BUILD event cannot carry depfile dependencies. Since
then, every target with AUTOMOC or AUTOUIC enabled gains an
'<ORIGIN>_autogen' and an '<ORIGIN>_autogen_timestamp_deps' target,
which the Visual Studio generators turn into two extra projects per
target in the generated solution.

Attach the autogen custom command to the origin target instead. The
custom command still carries the depfile, and the dependencies of the
origin target provide the ordering that
'<ORIGIN>_autogen_timestamp_deps' provides otherwise, because MSBuild
builds all referenced projects before any step of the referencing
project.

Use the conditions of the PRE_BUILD event, so that the
'<ORIGIN>_autogen' target keeps existing wherever it existed before
depfiles were enabled for the Visual Studio generators. In particular,
projects that name the target in add_dependencies() keep working.

Ninja and the Makefile generators keep the separate targets. Extra
targets have no cost for them, and '<ORIGIN>_autogen' has always existed
there.

The Xcode generator gained the same two targets per origin target in
4.4, but attaching the custom command there needs some more thoughts on
the per-config timestamp file first: Xcode rejects targets whose sources
vary by configuration, and with AUTOGEN_BETTER_GRAPH_MULTI_CONFIG the
timestamp file is per configuration.

Fixes: #28034
Fixes: #28033
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2020-12-21 21:13:58 +01:00
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CMake
*****

Introduction
============

CMake is a cross-platform, open-source build system generator.
For full documentation visit the `CMake Home Page`_ and the
`CMake Documentation Page`_. The `CMake Community Wiki`_ also
references useful guides and recipes.

.. _`CMake Home Page`: https://cmake.org
.. _`CMake Documentation Page`: https://cmake.org/documentation
.. _`CMake Community Wiki`: https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/community/-/wikis/home

CMake is maintained and supported by `Kitware`_ and developed in
collaboration with a productive community of contributors.

.. _`Kitware`: https://www.kitware.com/cmake

License
=======

CMake is distributed under the OSI-approved BSD 3-clause License.
See `LICENSE.rst`_ for details.

.. _`LICENSE.rst`: LICENSE.rst

Building CMake
==============

Supported Platforms
-------------------

* Microsoft Windows
* Apple macOS
* Linux
* FreeBSD
* OpenBSD
* Solaris
* AIX

Other UNIX-like operating systems may work too out of the box, if not
it should not be a major problem to port CMake to this platform.
Please post to the `CMake Discourse Forum`_ to ask if others have
had experience with the platform.

.. _`CMake Discourse Forum`: https://discourse.cmake.org

Building CMake with CMake
-------------------------

You can build CMake as any other project with a CMake-based build system:
run an already-installed CMake on this source tree with your preferred
generator and options.  Then build it and install it.

To build the documentation, install `Sphinx`_ and configure CMake with
``-DSPHINX_HTML=ON`` and/or ``-DSPHINX_MAN=ON`` to enable the "html" or
"man" builder.  Add ``-DSPHINX_EXECUTABLE=/path/to/sphinx-build`` if the
tool is not found automatically.

To run the test suite, run ``ctest`` in the CMake build directory after
building.  See the `CMake Testing Guide`_ for details.

.. _`Sphinx`: https://sphinx-doc.org
.. _`CMake Testing Guide`: Help/dev/testing.rst

Building CMake from Scratch
---------------------------

UNIX/Mac OSX/MinGW/MSYS/Cygwin
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You need to have a C++ compiler (supporting C++11) and a ``make`` installed.
Run the ``bootstrap`` script you find in the source directory of CMake.
You can use the ``--help`` option to see the supported options.
You may use the ``--prefix=<install_prefix>`` option to specify a custom
installation directory for CMake.  Once this has finished successfully,
run ``make`` and ``make install``.

For example, if you simply want to build and install CMake from source,
you can build directly in the source tree::

  $ ./bootstrap && make && sudo make install

Or, if you plan to develop CMake or otherwise run the test suite, create
a separate build tree::

  $ mkdir build && cd build
  $ ../bootstrap && make

By default the ``bootstrap`` script configures CMake to build with vendored
dependencies.  However, CMake does not vendor OpenSSL.  To bootstrap in a
minimal environment, disable use of OpenSSL::

  $ ./bootstrap -- -DCMAKE_USE_OPENSSL=OFF

Windows
^^^^^^^

There are two ways for building CMake under Windows:

1. Compile with MSVC from VS 2015 or later.
   You need to download and install a binary release of CMake.  You can get
   these releases from the `CMake Download Page`_.  Then proceed with the
   instructions above for `Building CMake with CMake`_.

2. Bootstrap with MinGW under MSYS2.
   Download and install `MSYS2`_.  Then install the required build tools::

     $ pacman -S --needed git base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc

   and bootstrap as above.

.. _`CMake Download Page`: https://cmake.org/download
.. _`MSYS2`: https://www.msys2.org/

Reporting Bugs
==============

If you have found a bug:

1. If you have a patch, please read the `CONTRIBUTING.rst`_ document.

2. Otherwise, please post to the `CMake Discourse Forum`_ and ask about
   the expected and observed behaviors to determine if it is really
   a bug.

3. Finally, if the issue is not resolved by the above steps, open
   an entry in the `CMake Issue Tracker`_.

.. _`CMake Issue Tracker`: https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues

Contributing
============

See `CONTRIBUTING.rst`_ for instructions to contribute.

.. _`CONTRIBUTING.rst`: CONTRIBUTING.rst
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