project(CASE4 C) # This is not really a circular dependency. "case4Bar" refers to a # third-party library that happens to match the executable name, which # is okay when the executable is not a linkable target (ENABLE_EXPORTS # is not set). This tests whether CMake avoids incorrectly reporting # a circular dependency. In practice case4Foo may be a shared # library, but we skip that here because we do not want it to actually # have to find the third-party library. add_library(case4Foo STATIC foo.c) target_link_libraries(case4Foo case4Bar) # The executable avoids linking to a library with its own name, which # has been a CMake-ism for a long time, so we will not get a link # failure. An imported target or executable with an OUTPUT_NAME set # may be used if the user really wants to link a third-party library # into an executable of the same name. add_executable(case4Bar bar.c) target_link_libraries(case4Bar case4Foo)