[CMake] INSTALL destination directories

[Mike Jackson]

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Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services


On Nov 14, 2007, at 3:19 PM, Stephen Collyer wrote:

> This is an INSTALL example copied from the wiki:
>
> INSTALL(TARGETS ExecutableTarget StaticLibraryTarget  
> SharedLibraryTarget
>   RUNTIME DESTINATION bin
>   LIBRARY DESTINATION lib
>   ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib
> )
>
> 1. I assume that cmake automatically knows (somehow) to associate
> ExecutableTarget with the RUNTIME DESTINATION and similarly for
> the library targets. Is that right ?

EXECUTABLE targets imply runtime.
Library (Shared/Dynamic) -> Library
Library (static)-> Archive

>
> 2. I guess the bin and lib directories are relative to something,
> but it's not clear to me what that place is. Is it the directory
> where the topmost CMakeList.txt file lives ?

Relative to ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}, which is set when you run ccmake  
or CMakeSetup. The user can set this to what ever they want. It  
defaults to /usr/local on Unix and C:\Program Files\Name of Project  
on Windows

>
> -- 
> Regards
>
> Steve Collyer
> Netspinner Ltd
>