[CMake] install files generator expression

[Lars]

Petr,

That worked nicely. Cheers 😊

regards, Lars

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Fra: Petr Kmoch <petr.kmoch at gmail.com>
Sendt: onsdag 9. januar 2019 16.11
Til: Lars
Kopi: cmake at cmake.org
Emne: Re: [CMake] install files generator expression

Hi Lars.

The DESTINATION parameter of install() accepts only a single argument, which means it's tripping on the line break between the two genexes. Make it one argument:

INSTALL(FILES ${qt5_locations}
  DESTINATION
    $<$<PLATFORM_ID:Windows>:bin>$<$<PLATFORM_ID:Linux>:lib>
  COMPONENT runtime)

This should work.

Petr


On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 12:29, Lars <laasunde at hotmail.com<mailto:laasunde at hotmail.com>> wrote:
Hello,

We use find_package command in config mode to find Qt 5.11 libraries. The libraries are available as imported (Qt5::Core etc).

Our understand is that CMake does not support install of imported targets. Therefore we use get_target_property to find actual location of library and Install(Files ...) to install the files.

The install command looks like this (and works);
INSTALL(FILES ${qt5_locations} DESTINATION "bin" COMPONENT runtime)

The documentation states that DESTINATION supports generator expression. We would like to use generator expression to install libraries in "bin" on Windows and "lib" on Linux but have not be able to accomplish this task. The below command generated the following error message "Install files given unknown argument  $<$<PLATFORM_ID:Linux>:lib>". We have tried other variants but none of them work.

INSTALL(FILES ${qt5_locations}
  DESTINATION
    $<$<PLATFORM_ID:Windows>:bin>
    $<$<PLATFORM_ID:Linux>:lib>
  COMPONENT runtime)

Appreicate any input.

kind regards, Lars


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