[CMake] INSTALL TARGET with no target to compile

[Daniele E. Domenichelli]

On Thursday 29 January 2009, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Thursday 29 January 2009, Daniele E. Domenichelli wrote:
>> I have a small template library in c++ composed by ".h" files only and I
>> want to use cmake to configure, find dependencies and install the
>> library (compiling is not needed).
>>
>> This template library is in a bigger package with some other libraries
>> that I install using "INSTALL TARGET" signature.
>>
>> I know I could use "INSTALL FILES", but I would like to use the same
>> syntax ("INSTALL TARGET") for the first library, so I tried creating a
>> new target, but with no results... Is there a way to do it?
> 
> No. If you just have to install a set of files, use install(FILES).
> If you didn't create a target using add_executable() or add_library(), you 
> can't use install(TARGETS)
> Do you have some specific problem with install(FILES ) ?


Hi, Thanks for the answer.

No, I don't have any specific problem with install(FILES), my problem
was just because I'm installing all the other sublibrary of my project
using install(TARGETS) and I was guessing if I could use the same syntax
for all of them for easier maintenance...


Regards,
Daniele