Self reference on target errors

[EdTheC]

After running the conversion, I am having trouble with all of my projects. Here's an example: 1> [CMake] CMake Error: 1> [CMake] Error evaluating generator expression: 1> [CMake] 1> [CMake] $<TARGET_GENEX_EVAL:CreateDB,$<TARGET_PROPERTY:CreateDB,TARGETNAME$<UPPER_CASE:$>>> 1> [CMake] 1> [CMake] Self reference on target "CreateDB".

The corresponding lines in the cmakelists file is: set_target_properties(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES TARGET_NAME_DBGRMT "CreateDB" TARGET_NAME_DEBUG "CreateDB" TARGET_NAME_RELEASE "${TARGET_NAME}$ENV{TargetExt}" TARGET_NAME_RELNOOPT "${TARGET_NAME}$ENV{TargetExt}" TARGET_NAME_TEMPLATE "${TARGET_NAME}$ENV{TargetExt}" )

To Reproduce Just open cmakelists in Visual Studio 2019.

This is the whole cmake file: CMakeLists.txt

Any help appreciated on this, I'm stuck!

[pavelliavonau]

Have you checked already known issues before creating this? There are only 9.

[EdTheC]

I tried, but I came up with #57 which appears that it is a bug that is not fixed. I was hoping for a simple solution besides waiting. I was able to guess the solution, and for someone who might stumble across this, simply add set(TARGET_NAME CreateDB) into the named cmakelists file for each type of this error. In my case it was TARGET_NAME for my CreateDB project. But its not clear why this was wrong, it was listed as $(ProjectName) in the vstudio properties.

[pavelliavonau]

Possible solution might be replaceing: TARGET_NAME_RELEASE "${TARGET_NAME}$ENV{TargetExt}" with TARGET_NAME_RELEASE "targetName.exe"

it's hard to resolve this variables at CMake like VS does.

[bigla]

I resolved it by putting ${PROJECT_NAME} instead of ${TARGET_NAME}, but I cannot say for sure whether this might help in your constellation.