# COMPILE_OPTIONS

List of options to pass to the compiler.

This property holds a ;-list of options specified so far for its target. Use the `target_compile_options()` command to append more options.

This property is intialized by the `COMPILE_OPTIONS` directory property when a target is created, and 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.