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<span id="prop_tgt:INTERFACE_LINK_OPTIONS"></span><h1>INTERFACE_LINK_OPTIONS<a class="headerlink" href="#interface-link-options" title="Permalink to this headline">ΒΆ</a></h1>
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<p>List of public link options requirements for a library.</p>
<p>Targets may populate this property to publish the link options
required to compile against the headers for the target. The <span class="target" id="index-1-command:target_link_options"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../command/target_link_options.html#command:target_link_options" title="target_link_options"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">target_link_options()</span></code></a>
command populates this property with values given to the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PUBLIC</span></code> and
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">INTERFACE</span></code> keywords. Projects may also get and set the property directly.</p>
<p>When target dependencies are specified using <span class="target" id="index-0-command:target_link_libraries"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../command/target_link_libraries.html#command:target_link_libraries" title="target_link_libraries"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">target_link_libraries()</span></code></a>,
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build properties of the consumer.</p>
<p>Contents of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">INTERFACE_LINK_OPTIONS</span></code> may use &quot;generator expressions&quot;
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