CMP0071 — CMake 4.3.1 Documentation

# CMP0071

Added in version 3.10.

Let `AUTOMOC` and `AUTOUIC` process `GENERATED` files.

Since version 3.10, CMake processes regular and `GENERATED` source files in `AUTOMOC` and `AUTOUIC`. In earlier CMake versions, only regular source files were processed. `GENERATED` source files were ignored silently.

This policy affects how source files that are `GENERATED` get treated in `AUTOMOC` and `AUTOUIC`.

The `OLD` behavior for this policy is to ignore `GENERATED` source files in `AUTOMOC` and `AUTOUIC`.

The `NEW` behavior for this policy is to process `GENERATED` source files in `AUTOMOC` and `AUTOUIC` just like regular source files.

Note

To silence the `CMP0071` warning source files can be excluded from `AUTOMOC` and `AUTOUIC` processing by setting the source file properties `SKIP_AUTOMOC`, `SKIP_AUTOUIC` or `SKIP_AUTOGEN`.

Source skip example:

    # ...
    set_property(SOURCE /path/to/file1.h PROPERTY SKIP_AUTOMOC ON)
    set_property(SOURCE /path/to/file2.h PROPERTY SKIP_AUTOUIC ON)
    set_property(SOURCE /path/to/file3.h PROPERTY SKIP_AUTOGEN ON)
    # ...

This policy was introduced in CMake version 3.10. It may be set by `cmake_policy()` or `cmake_minimum_required()`. If it is not set, CMake warns, and uses `OLD` behavior.

Note

The `OLD` behavior of a policy is deprecated by definition and may be removed in a future version of CMake.