[CMake] installing dependents

[Clinton Stimpson]

Is get_prerequisites() supposed to return absolute paths all the time?
For example, on the Mac, I've got some frameworks in /Library/Frameworks 
that I may want to copy if they might not exist on other Macs.  When I 
call get_prerequisites(), getting "foo.framwork/" instead of 
"/Library/Frameworks/foo.framework/"

Clint

David Cole wrote:
> So I would love to see a corollary to BundleUtilities.cmake for Mac on 
> Windows and Linux, too.
>
> Using GetPrerequisites to gather the set of dependent files is 
> obviously the first step.
>
> Then, on Windows, a function that installs all the dependent dlls to 
> the same location as the executable would be awesome.
>
> On Linux, I guess you would have to make sure everything you depend on 
> is either already installed in its install path, or aware of your 
> install path, or uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH -- the issues here are the ones 
> I am least familiar with (compared to Windows and Mac anyhow).
>
> I don't think this should ever be fully automated because of licensing 
> and coyright issues. Technically, it is easy to gather the set of 
> required files to make something work on a practical level. The issue 
> will be: "hey, you're not allowed to copy *that* dll" because of such 
> and such non-technical reason...
>
> Having said all this, and that I would love to see it, I must admit: 
> it is not presently on the radar for any CMake developers as far as I 
> know. So, as always: patches welcome. :-)
>
>
> HTH,
> David
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Clinton Stimpson 
> <clinton at elemtech.com <mailto:clinton at elemtech.com>> wrote:
>
>     So I'm using GetPrequisites.cmake to gather dependencies.
>     Are there any examples, tips, etc.. for using this?
>
>     With the results I'm getting back, I do a
>     file(INSTALL ... ) because that's what I see in the
>     cmake_installcmake file.  Should it be documented?
>     But these files I'm getting back are soft links to the real
>     library.  And the file(INSTALL ... ) just puts a softlink in my
>     installation directory instead of a real library.
>
>     Is there some higher level cmake function I should be calling to
>     install libraries on Unix/Linux, similar to how there is
>     BundleUtilties.cmake for Mac?  Or ideally, is there one function I
>     can use on all platforms to install some prerequisites?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Clint
>
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