Displaying a target's list of linked libraries in cmake

Question

Is there a way to print a list the filenames for the libraries linked into a target via the target_link_libraries command

or even better, have all a target\'s dependenci

Answer 1

I realise this doesn't fully answer the question with regards doing it within cmake, but I faced a similar problem and thought I should share my solution.

First, in your source directory ("project"):

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake ..

Then, use graphviz to create a dot file, as in this answer:

$ cmake --graphviz=graph.dot .

Then, strip out the dependencies from the graph for your target (let's call it "foo"):

$ sed -n 's/.*label="\(.*\)"\s.*/\1/p' graph.dot.foo > foo_dependencies.txt

Now, remove the clutter:

$ rm graph.dot*