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Asked: 2026-06-09T07:09:03+00:00

I’m currently using CMake to build my project and CppUnit to Test it. In

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I’m currently using CMake to build my project and CppUnit to Test it. In my CMake file i create two executables. sample is the compiled source itself. And with sample_test I run the tests. If i r

Here a part of my CMakeLists.txt

SET(SAMPLE_ROOT_PATH ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR})
SET(SAMPLE_SOURCE_PATH ${SAMPLE_ROOT_PATH}/src)
SET(SAMPLE_TEST_SOURCE_PATH ${SAMPLE_ROOT_PATH}/test)
SET(SAMPLE_BIN_PATH ${SAMPLE_ROOT_PATH}/bin)
SET(SAMPLE_EXEC_NAME sample)
SET(SAMPLE_TEST_EXEC_NAME sample_test)

SET(EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH ${SAMPLE_BIN_PATH})

FILE(GLOB_RECURSE SAMPLE_SOURCE_FILES ${SAMPLE_SOURCE_PATH}/*.cpp)
FILE(GLOB_RECURSE SAMPLE_TEST_SOURCE_FILES ${SAMPLE_TEST_SOURCE_PATH}/*.cpp)
SET(SAMPLE_TEST_SOURCE_FILES ${SAMPLE_TEST_SOURCE_FILES} ${SAMPLE_SOURCE_FILES}
)
LIST(REMOVE_ITEM SAMPLE_TEST_SOURCE_FILES ${SAMPLE_SOURCE_PATH}/main.cpp)

SET(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-g -Wall")

ADD_EXECUTABLE(${SAMPLE_EXEC_NAME} ${SAMPLE_SOURCE_FILES})
ADD_EXECUTABLE(${SAMPLE_TEST_EXEC_NAME} ${SAMPLE_TEST_SOURCE_FILES})

this is the output of make

[  8%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/sample.dir/src/KeyBuffer.cpp.obj
[ 12%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/sample.dir/src/main.cpp.obj
[ 20%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/sample.dir/src/Object.cpp.obj
[ 45%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/sample.dir/src/World.cpp.obj
Linking CXX executable bin/sample.exe
[ 45%] Built target sample
[ 50%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/sample_test.dir/test/KeyBufferTest.cpp.obj

[ 54%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/sample_test.dir/test/ObjectTest.cpp.obj
[ 66%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/sample_test.dir/src/KeyBuffer.cpp.obj
[ 75%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/sample_test.dir/src/Object.cpp.obj
[100%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/sample_test.dir/src/World.cpp.obj
Linking CXX executable bin/sample_test.exe

As you can see Object.cpp, World.cpp and KeyBuffer.cpp get compiled twice! How can i prevent it? Or is there a better way to handle the CppUnit tests using CMake?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Each target may have different compiler flags configured, so if you add one source files to two targets, separate object files need to be produced from this one source file for both targets.

    The usual solution is to compile the shared source files into a static library which is then linked into both application targets.

    add_library(base STATIC ${shared_SOURCES}) # except e.g. foo_main.cpp

add_executable(foo ${foo_only_SOURCES})
target_link_libraries(foo base)

add_executable(bar ${bar_only_SOURCES})
target_link_libraries(bar base)
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