[CMake] How to INSTALL generated files

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2006-12-04 15:07+0100 Eric Noulard wrote:

> The remaining part of the problem is the 'install' part of it.
> Since CMake INSTALL command are processed during CMake run time
> (and not build time) but my build process generates files (doxygen
> produced files).
> Those files won't be installed since
> CMake may well not be re-runned after the file are generated.
>
> The CMake code used for installing files is the following:
> FILE(GLOB_RECURSE doc_files RELATIVE ${APIDOC_DIR} ${APIDOC_DIR}/*)
>   FOREACH(file ${doc_files})
>   GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT(file_prefix ${file} PATH)
>   INSTALL(FILES ${APIDOC_DIR}/${file}
>    DESTINATION doc/${file_prefix})
> ENDFOREACH(file)
>
> So the remaining question is:
>
> How to properly INSTALL files which are generated during build time
> BUT without knowing IN ADVANCE the name of the files you want to install.
> In the doxygen generated files case, I don't know the exact names of the
> list (may be huge) of files that will be generated.

Have a look at INSTALL(SCRIPT ....) in the documentation.  I am not that
familiar with it, but I suspect it will work exactly like you want if you
specify the above script.

Alan
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