# COMPILE_OPTIONS

List of options to pass to the compiler.

This property holds a semicolon-separated list of options given so far to the `add_compile_options()` command.

This property is used to initialize the `COMPILE_OPTIONS` target property when a target is created, which is used by the generators to set the options for the compiler.

Contents of `COMPILE_OPTIONS` may use “generator expressions” with the syntax `$<...>`. See the `cmake-generator-expressions(7)` manual for available expressions. See the `cmake-buildsystem(7)` manual for more on defining buildsystem properties.