CMP0020ΒΆ
Automatically link Qt executables to qtmain target on Windows.
CMake 2.8.10 and lower required users of Qt to always specify a link
dependency to the qtmain.lib static library manually on Windows.
CMake 2.8.11 gained the ability to evaluate generator expressions
while determining the link dependencies from IMPORTED targets. This
allows CMake itself to automatically link executables which link to Qt
to the qtmain.lib library when using IMPORTED Qt targets. For
applications already linking to qtmain.lib, this should have little
impact. For applications which supply their own alternative WinMain
implementation and for applications which use the QAxServer library,
this automatic linking will need to be disabled as per the
documentation.
The OLD behavior for this policy is not to link executables to
qtmain.lib automatically when they link to the QtCore IMPORTED target.
The NEW behavior for this policy is to link executables to qtmain.lib
automatically when they link to QtCore IMPORTED target.
This policy was introduced in CMake version 2.8.11. CMake version
3.24.2 warns when the policy is not set and uses OLD behavior. Use
the cmake_policy() command to set it to OLD or NEW explicitly.
Note
The OLD behavior of a policy is
deprecated by definition
and may be removed in a future version of CMake.