How to create ALIAS targets for all of my libs in one command?

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I’m in the process of porting my project from GNU Make to CMake, and am now creating the exported CMake file. I want to add all of my exported libraries into a namespace, since that appears to be good practice. However, my understanding is that for “best results” I should also create ALIAS targets for the exported libraries.

Does that mean I have to manually add a line like add_library(MyProj::foo ALIAS foo) for every exported library? Or is there a way to have ALIAS targets created automatically for all of my libraries, with a few lines of code? Adding all of these ALIAS targets manually looks error-prone and wordy to me.

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You can use a loop:

foreach(lib IN ITEMS foo bar baz qux)
  add_library(MyProj::${lib} ALIAS ${lib})
endforeach()
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