AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS

Target dependencies of the corresponding _autogen target.

Targets which have their AUTOMOC or AUTOUIC property ON have a corresponding _autogen target which is used to auto generate moc and uic files. As this _autogen target is created at generate-time, it is not possible to define dependencies of it, such as to create inputs for the moc or uic executable.

The AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS target property can be set instead to a list of dependencies of the _autogen target. Dependencies can be target names or file names.

See the cmake-qt(7) manual for more information on using CMake with Qt.

Use cases

If AUTOMOC or AUTOUIC depends on a file that is either

• a GENERATED non C++ file (e.g. a GENERATED .json or .ui file) or
• a GENERATED C++ file that isn’t recognized by AUTOMOC and AUTOUIC because it’s skipped by SKIP_AUTOMOC, SKIP_AUTOUIC, SKIP_AUTOGEN or CMP0071 or
• a file that isn’t in the target’s sources

it must added to AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS.