AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES

A semicolon-separated list list of macro names used by AUTOMOC to determine if a C++ file needs to be processed by moc.

This property is only used if the AUTOMOC property is ON for this target.

When running AUTOMOC, CMake searches for the strings listed in AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES in C++ source and header files. If any of the strings is found

• as the first non space string on a new line or
• as the first non space string after a { on a new line,

then the file will be processed by moc.

By default AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES is initialized from CMAKE_AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES.

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

Example

In this case the Q_OBJECT macro is hidden inside another macro called CUSTOM_MACRO. To let CMake know that source files that contain CUSTOM_MACRO need to be moc processed, we call:

set_property(TARGET tgt APPEND PROPERTY AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES "CUSTOM_MACRO")