[QPID-7148] Update CMake to use more modern simpler features

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: C++ Build
• Assignee: Andrew Stitcher
• Reporter: Andrew Stitcher
• Created: 16/Mar/16 18:26
• Updated: 22/Oct/22 16:23

Description

The CMake build system for Qpid especially the Windows relevant bits can be improved and made easier to understand by using newer features of more recent CMake releases (especially post 3.0 features).

This will allow us to remove the warnings:

CMake Warning (dev) at src/msvc.cmake:31 (get_target_property):
  Policy CMP0026 is not set: Disallow use of the LOCATION target property.
  Run "cmake --help-policy CMP0026" for policy details.  Use the cmake_policy
  command to set the policy and suppress this warning.
 
  The LOCATION property should not be read from target "qpidtypes".  Use the
  target name directly with add_custom_command, or use the generator
  expression $<TARGET_FILE>, as appropriate.