cmakemodules/HISTORY.md

1.8.0 (2018-03-18)

• support for clang-cl.exe under Windows.
• faster prefix header generation for Clang.
• enable parallel compilation of unity target for MSVC.
• CMake 3.9 and 3.10 compatibility fixes.
• disable inclusion of timestamp in precompiled headers for Clang.
• work around ccache reporting incorrect configuration.
• honor MANUALLY_ADDED_DEPENDENCIES property upon generation of unity targets.
• use default setting of 2 for COTIRE_MINIMUM_NUMBER_OF_TARGET_SOURCES.
• drop broken support for unity building of targets with automatic CMake Qt processing turned on.
• manual updates.

1.7.10 (2017-06-16)

• CMake 3.8 compatibility.
• CMake 3.8.0 Qt automoc support (thanks bilke).
• fix Xcode recompiling every time builds happen (thanks gcamp).
• disable PCH messages when -Wno-pch-messages flag exists (thanks kbinani).
• work around ccache incompatibility with newer versions of GCC and Clang.
• fix MinGW incompatibility with BUILD_INTERFACE generator expression.
• fix handling of CMAKE_INCLUDE_FLAG_SEP_<LANG> variables.

1.7.9 (2016-12-08)

• CMake 3.6 and 3.7 compatibility.
• fix ccache 3.2 compatibility issues.
• fix bugs with handling language standard related properties (e.g., CXX_STANDARD, CXX_EXTENSIONS).
• make prefix header generation and precompiled header compilation depend on the compiler executable.
• fix Qt automoc handling for Windows (thanks jcelerier).
• convert Windows paths in include directories to CMake paths (thanks wdx04).
• replace object library with corresponding unity object library when using COPY_UNITY linking strategy.
• better error reporting from prefix header generation.

1.7.8 (2016-03-27)

• fix COPY_UNITY linking strategy for private link dependencies.
• honor CMAKE_INCLUDE_CURRENT_DIR_IN_INTERFACE upon handling of target usage requirements.
• reworked setting up of LINK_LIBRARIES and INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES properties for unity targets.

1.7.7 (2016-03-20)

• CMake 3.5 compatibility.
• fix bugs related to handling of interface libraries.
• output shorter log messages when using Visual Studio IDE.
• don’t disable PCH if CMAKE__COMPILER_ID is not set (thanks jcelerier).
• add support for compiler launchers introduced in CMake 3.4 (thanks misery).

1.7.6 (2015-12-06)

• fix CMake 3.4 compatibility issues.
• prevent redundant re-generation of prefix header when a target has generated source files.

1.7.5 (2015-10-27)

• handle visibility target properties (CXX_VISIBILITY_PRESET and VISIBILITY_INLINES_HIDDEN).
• better handling of include directories and system include directories.
• parse additional system include directories from target compile flags.
• activate select CMake policies.

1.7.4 (2015-10-10)

• set up single unity source file for prefix header generation.
• increase MSVC default PCH memory to 128M.
• remove obsolete code.

1.7.3 (2015-07-25)

• handle language standard target properties (e.g., CXX_STANDARD).
• apply user provided prefix header to unity build target.
• remove effect of COTIRE_MINIMUM_NUMBER_OF_TARGET_SOURCES on generated unity target.
• manual updates.

1.7.2 (2015-04-22)

• reduce configure time overhead.
• fix bug with dependency checking when using Xcode.
• remove obsolete code required for CMake versions older than 2.8.12.
• streamline debugging output.

1.7.1 (2015-04-06)

• fix problem with CMake’s automatic Qt processing for generated unity targets.
• added a section on common pitfalls when using cotire to the manual.
• remove obsolete code required for CMake versions older than 2.8.12.
• streamline debugging output.
• activate select CMake policies.

1.7.0 (2015-03-29)

• fix CMake 3.2 compatibility issues.
• cotire now requires CMake 2.8.12 or newer.
• copy IMPORT_PREFIX and IMPORT_SUFFIX target properties for unity targets (thanks peterhuene).
• new property COTIRE_PREFIX_HEADER_INCLUDE_PRIORITY_PATH allows for organizing includes added to the prefix header by priority (thanks ArnaudD-FR).
• for Visual Studio C++, increase static precompiled header memory allocation.
• the default strategy for setting up a unity target’s linked libraries is now COPY_UNITY.
• for Qt projects, fix problem with handling of AUTOMOC in generated unity target.
• fix problem with generating the cotire intermediate directory.
• documentation updates.

1.6.9 (2015-01-18)

• fix bug with parsing of localized MSVC /showIncludes output.

1.6.8 (2014-12-28)

• fix bug with generation of unity source file segments for parallel builds.

1.6.7 (2014-12-21)

• fix CMake 3.1 compatibility issues.
• fix ccache 3.2 compatibility issues.
• handle COTIRE_MINIMUM_NUMBER_OF_TARGET_SOURCES correctly for mixed-language targets.
• correctly compute absolute paths of generated source files added to the unity source file.
• fix bug with checking unity source and prefix header dependencies under Xcode.
• fix bug with handling of unity source file dependencies.
• move code to determine build configurations to function of its own.
• documentation updates.

1.6.6 (2014-09-21)

• fix GCC issue with prefix header generation when source files are missing.
• fix bug where some target properties were not properly propagated to the generated unity target.
• use target_link_libraries to set up the unity target link libraries.
• add Qt4 and Qt5 examples to the Patches directory.
• documentation updates.

1.6.5 (2014-08-26)

• correctly handle generator expressions used in compile definitions, compile flags and include directories (requires CMake 2.8.12 or newer).
• fix -isystem includes being incorrectly passed to execute_process (thanks nickhutchinson).
• make some error messages more verbose.

1.6.4 (2014-07-14)

• fix CMake 3.0 compatibility issues.
• preserve system flag for includes when generating PCH (thanks gjasny).
• fix bug with setting up EXPORTS symbol for shared libraries.

1.6.3 (2014-06-11)

• correctly handle usage requirements for transitive link targets.
• use indirect inclusion for prefix header when using generator Xcode.

1.6.2 (2014-06-09)

• don’t use -w flag for pre-compiling the prefix header, because it has unwanted side effects.
• correctly handle linked targets’ INTERFACE_COMPILE_OPTIONS, INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES and INTERFACE_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS properties upon pre-compiling and prefix header generation.
• For Clang and GCC, pre-compile prefix header through indirect inclusion via a prefix source file, to make both compilers honor the system_header pragma in the prefix header correctly.
• fix ccache incompatibility.

1.6.1 (2014-04-20)

• fixed bug where precompiled headers did not work with Clang (thanks to nh2 for reporting).
• when using ccache, require that environment variable CCACHE_SLOPPINESS is set to time_macros.

1.6.0 (2014-03-16)

• suppress compiler warnings from precompiled headers.
• fix Clang compatibility issue with prefix header generation.
• use file extension .pch for precompiled headers generated with Clang.
• manual updates.

1.5.2 (2014-01-17)

• honor framework includes under OS X correctly.
• fix handling of OS X specific variables CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT and CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET.
• add new examples to the Patches directory.

1.5.1 (2013-11-12)

• fixed string quoting bugs.

1.5.0 (2013-10-13)

• CMake 2.8.12 compatibility fixes.
• Upon generation of a unity target, cotire can now be configured to automatically copy all the linked libraries and targets from the original target. See the section on the new target property COTIRE_UNITY_LINK_LIBRARIES_INIT in the cotire manual.
• fixed bug with copying target properties to generated unity target.
• cotire manual updates.
• add new examples to the Patches directory.
• fix typos.

1.4.3 (2013-09-28)

• fixed bug with generation of unity source file when COTIRE_MINIMUM_NUMBER_OF_TARGET_SOURCES is set to 0.

1.4.2 (2013-08-24)

• CMake 2.8.11 compatibility fixes.
• always force the inclusion of a user provided prefix header, even if the target contains too few sources to enable the use of a precompiled header.

1.4.1 (2013-06-08)

• fixed bug with determination of compiler version.
• fixed bug with generation of unity source when target source files are used for multiple targets.
• fixed bug with multi-core optimized prefix header generation.

1.4.0 (2013-03-11)

• one year anniversary release.
• add support for multi-core optimized unity builds for some CMake generators.
• add support for multi-core optimized prefix header generation.
• add more examples to cotire manual.

1.3.6 (2013-03-06)

• fix bug with prefix header initialization for generator Xcode.
• print cotire version upon inclusion.

1.3.5 (2013-03-01)

• fix typos in function names and property descriptions.

1.3.4 (2013-02-07)

• fixed bug with computing to output directory of the generated unity target (thanks shaunew).
• fixed wrong variable reference in debugging output (thanks shaunew).

1.3.3 (2013-02-03)

• fixed bug with handling of policy CMP0018 relating to target property POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE.
• fixed warnings relating to uninitialized variables.
• Intel XE 2013 Update 2 compatibility fixes.

1.3.2 (2013-02-02)

• fixed missing curly brace (thanks shaunew).

1.3.1 (2013-01-29)

• fix bug with filtering of compile options.

1.3.0 (2013-01-09)

• add support for Intel C and C++ compilers.
• CMake 2.8.10 compatibility fixes.
• properly clean up generated cotire log files upon invoking clean target.
• documentation updates.

1.2.0 (2012-11-01)

• add support for manually maintained prefix header and unity source files.
• the target property COTIRE_<LANG>_PREFIX_HEADER_INIT can be set to a user provided prefix header file to be used instead of the automatically generated one (e.g., stdafx.h).
• the new target property COTIRE_<LANG>_UNITY_SOURCE_INIT can be set to a user provided unity source file to be used instead of the automatically generated one.
• the target property COTIRE_UNITY_TARGET_NAME is no longer read-only. It can be set to the desired name of the unity target that will be added by cotire.
• add parameters SOURCE_DIR and BINARY_DIR to function cotire to allow for explicitly specifying a target’s source and binary directory, if target to be cotired has been added in a different directory.

1.1.8 (2012-10-27)

• when using MSVC, apply option /bigobj to compilation of generated unity files.

1.1.7 (2012-10-26)

• cope with double slash characters in scanned include paths.

1.1.6 (2012-09-22)

• check result code upon scanning includes.
• always add a clean_cotire target to easily clean up cotire generated files.
• add section on extern "C" linkage issues to manual.

1.1.5 (2012-08-17)

• new cache variable COTIRE_UNITY_SOURCE_EXCLUDE_EXTENSIONS can be set to globally exclude sources with the listed file extensions from the generated unity source.
• fix check for multi-architecture builds under OS X.

1.1.4 (2012-08-15)

• prevent redundant re-generation of the unity source, prefix header and precompiled header files (this makes cotire more applicable to C++ projects that use Qt).

1.1.3 (2012-08-12)

• fix out of range index operation upon building list of target include directories.
• honor target properties POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE and NO_SONAME introduced with CMake 2.8.9.
• make selection of target source files for requested target language more careful.
• prevent modification of the CMake policy stack upon CMake version check.

1.1.2 (2012-05-06)

• make handling of include directories more robust against invalid paths.

1.1.1 (2012-04-20)

• fixed bug with generation of unity targets for WIN32_EXECUTABLE targets.
• fixed bug with parsing of localized MSVC /showIncludes output.

1.1.0 (2012-04-19)

• tested with CMake 2.8.8.
• added example to manual that shows how to apply cotire to CMake object library targets.
• fixed multiple bugs with handling of CMake single build type and multiple configuration builds.
• added more robust parsing of localized MSVC /showIncludes output.

1.0.9 (2012-04-09)

• add support for compiler wrappers like ccache.
• under OS X, apply CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT to prefix header include and ignore paths.

1.0.8 (2012-04-05)

• require CMake 2.8.6 since we are using set_property option APPEND_STRING.

1.0.7 (2012-04-02)

• add support for Ninja generator introduced in CMake 2.8.8.
• fix bug with initialization of variable COTIRE_VERBOSE.

1.0.6 (2012-04-01)

• correctly handle builds where both CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE and CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES are set.

1.0.5 (2012-03-26)

• fix Visual Studio C++ 2010 compilation of example project.
• enhance heuristic for #include_next directive detection.
• fix llvm-3.0.src.patch for GCC 4.6 compilation.

1.0.4 (2012-03-24)

• honor target property INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES introduced in CMake 2.8.8.

1.0.3 (2012-03-23)

• handle OBJECT_LIBRARY targets introduced in CMake 2.8.8.
• use predefined compiler version variable, if available.

1.0.2 (2012-03-16)

• fix Xcode 4.3 compatibility.
• Cotire manual corrections.

1.0.1 (2012-03-15)

• Cotire manual corrections.
• Add prefix header to the generated unity build target.

1.0.0 (2012-03-11)

• First release.