Using pre-compiled headers with CMake

Question

I have seen a few (old) posts on the \'net about hacking together some support for pre-compiled headers in CMake. They all seem a bit all-over the place and everyone has the

Answer 1

CMake has just gained support for PCHs, it should be available in the upcoming 3.16 release, due 2019-10-01:

https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/merge_requests/3553

  target_precompile_headers(
     [header1...]
    [ [header2...] ...])

There is ongoing discussion on supporting sharing PCHs between targets: https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/19659

There is some additional context (motivation, numbers) available at https://blog.qt.io/blog/2019/08/01/precompiled-headers-and-unity-jumbo-builds-in-upcoming-cmake/