# How to get listing file when cross compile

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**Tags:** os:linux\
**Created:** [December 4, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/how-to-get-listing-file-when-cross-compile/2297 "2020-12-04T13:20:34Z")\
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> [@Massimiliano\_Cialdi](#):
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> I looked among the variables, but I didn’t find what I was looking for. Before going to browse through the cmake modules, could you suggest how I can do it?

I think we’d need a new generator expression. Something like `$<TARGET_OBJECT_DIR:tgt>` perhaps (in order to support multi-config generators)? The `foreach` loop is likely to continue to be necessary without some other feature that would need more work. Could you please file a feature request on [the issue tracker](https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues)?

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