AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS

Additional target dependencies of the corresponding :ref:<ORIGIN>_autogen <<ORIGIN>_autogen> target.

.. note::

If Qt 5.15 or later is used and the generator is either :generator:`Ninja`
or :ref:`Makefile Generators`, additional target dependencies are added to
the :ref:`<ORIGIN>_autogen_timestamp_deps <<ORIGIN>_autogen_timestamp_deps>`
target instead of the :ref:`<ORIGIN>_autogen <<ORIGIN>_autogen>` target.

Targets which have their :prop_tgt:AUTOMOC or :prop_tgt:AUTOUIC property ON have a corresponding :ref:<ORIGIN>_autogen <<ORIGIN>_autogen> target which generates moc and uic files. As this :ref:<ORIGIN>_autogen <<ORIGIN>_autogen> target is created at generate-time, it is not possible to define dependencies of it using e.g. :command:add_dependencies. Instead the AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS target property can be set to a :ref:semicolon-separated list <CMake Language Lists> of additional dependencies for the :ref:<ORIGIN>_autogen <<ORIGIN>_autogen> target. Dependencies can be target names or file names.

In total, the dependencies of the :ref:<ORIGIN>_autogen <<ORIGIN>_autogen> target are composed from

forwarded origin target dependencies (enabled by default via :prop_tgt:AUTOGEN_ORIGIN_DEPENDS)
additional user defined dependencies from AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS

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

Use cases ^^^^^^^^^

If :prop_tgt:AUTOMOC or :prop_tgt:AUTOUIC depends on a file that is either

a :prop_sf:GENERATED non C++ file (e.g. a :prop_sf:GENERATED .json or .ui file) or
a :prop_sf:GENERATED C++ file that isn't recognized by :prop_tgt:AUTOMOC and :prop_tgt:AUTOUIC because it's skipped by :prop_sf:SKIP_AUTOMOC, :prop_sf:SKIP_AUTOUIC, :prop_sf:SKIP_AUTOGEN or :policy:CMP0071 or
a file that isn't in the origin target's sources

it must be added to AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS.