project('link_depends_indexed_custom_target', 'c') cmd = find_program('make_file.py') dep_files = custom_target('gen_dep', command: [cmd, '@OUTPUT@'], output: ['dep_file1', 'dep_file2']) exe = executable('foo', 'foo.c', link_depends: dep_files[1], c_args: ['-DDEPFILE="' + dep_files[0].full_path()+ '"']) check_arch = find_program('check_arch.py') custom_target('check-arch', command: [check_arch, exe, host_machine.cpu_family(), '@OUTPUT@'], build_by_default: true, output: 'dummy.txt') # check that dep_file1 exists, which means that link_depends target ran test('runtest', exe)