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<span id="prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS"></span><h1>AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS<a class="headerlink" href="#autogen-origin-depends" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
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<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.14.</span></p>
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<p>Switch for forwarding origin target dependencies to the corresponding
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_autogen</span></code> target.</p>
<p>Targets which have their <span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:AUTOMOC"></span><a class="reference internal" href="AUTOMOC.html#prop_tgt:AUTOMOC" title="AUTOMOC"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOMOC</span></code></a> or <span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:AUTOUIC"></span><a class="reference internal" href="AUTOUIC.html#prop_tgt:AUTOUIC" title="AUTOUIC"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOUIC</span></code></a> property
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ON</span></code> have a corresponding <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_autogen</span></code> target which generates
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">moc</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">uic</span></code> files. As this <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_autogen</span></code> target is created at
generate-time, it is not possible to define dependencies of it using
e.g. <span class="target" id="index-0-command:add_dependencies"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../command/add_dependencies.html#command:add_dependencies" title="add_dependencies"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">add_dependencies()</span></code></a>. Instead the
<span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS"></span><a class="reference internal" href="#prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS" title="AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS</span></code></a> target property decides whether the origin
target dependencies should be forwarded to the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_autogen</span></code> target or not.</p>
<p>By default <span class="target" id="index-1-prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS"></span><a class="reference internal" href="#prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS" title="AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS</span></code></a> is initialized from
<span class="target" id="index-0-variable:CMAKE_AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../variable/CMAKE_AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS.html#variable:CMAKE_AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS" title="CMAKE_AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS"><code class="xref cmake cmake-variable docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CMAKE_AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS</span></code></a> which is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ON</span></code> by default.</p>
<p>In total the dependencies of the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_autogen</span></code> target are composed from</p>
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<li><p>forwarded origin target dependencies
(enabled by default via <span class="target" id="index-2-prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS"></span><a class="reference internal" href="#prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS" title="AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS</span></code></a>)</p></li>
<li><p>additional user defined dependencies from <span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS"></span><a class="reference internal" href="AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS.html#prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS" title="AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS</span></code></a></p></li>
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<p>See the <span class="target" id="index-0-manual:cmake-qt(7)"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../manual/cmake-qt.7.html#manual:cmake-qt(7)" title="cmake-qt(7)"><code class="xref cmake cmake-manual docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cmake-qt(7)</span></code></a> manual for more information on using CMake
with Qt.</p>
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<h2>Note<a class="headerlink" href="#note" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Disabling <span class="target" id="index-3-prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS"></span><a class="reference internal" href="#prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS" title="AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS</span></code></a> is useful to avoid building of
origin target dependencies when building the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_autogen</span></code> target only.
This is especially interesting when a
<span class="target" id="index-0-variable:CMAKE_GLOBAL_AUTOGEN_TARGET"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../variable/CMAKE_GLOBAL_AUTOGEN_TARGET.html#variable:CMAKE_GLOBAL_AUTOGEN_TARGET" title="CMAKE_GLOBAL_AUTOGEN_TARGET"><code class="xref cmake cmake-variable docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">global</span> <span class="pre">autogen</span> <span class="pre">target</span></code></a> is enabled.</p>
<p>When the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_autogen</span></code> target doesn't require all the origin target's
dependencies, and <span class="target" id="index-4-prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS"></span><a class="reference internal" href="#prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS" title="AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS</span></code></a> is disabled, it might be
necessary to extend <span class="target" id="index-1-prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS"></span><a class="reference internal" href="AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS.html#prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS" title="AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS</span></code></a> to add missing
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