[CMake] target path, or post build event?

[David Cole]

Right click on the INSTALL target and build it.... that will execute the
code in Visual Studio to do the installation. (Equivalent to executing "make
install" on a make file based system...)

HTH,
David


On 10/24/07, Mark Wyszomierski <markww at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Justin,
>
> Thanks for replying. What runs the INSTALL code - is it executed by
> the CMake application when you're done configuring? Or do you manually
> run it yourself somehow?
>
> I tried adding this line to my CMakeLists.txt:
>
>     INSTALL(FILES debug/cmaketest.exe DESTINATION ../copy_file_test)
>
>
> and I can see that a new solution file (for vc++ 2005) was added named
> INSTALL, but it has nothing underneath - not sure what I should be
> expecting it to look like?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> On 10/24/07, KSpam <keesling_spam at cox.net> wrote:
> > Mark,
> >
> > The build location for libraries can be configured with
> LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH,
> > and the build location for executables can be configured with
> > EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH.  I use the following lines in my projects:
> >
> > SET(EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/bin")
> > SET(LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/lib")
> >
> > To put your executable and libraries in C:\test, I would suggest using
> the
> > INSTALL command (cmake --help-command INSTALL).  After building, you
> would
> > just need to run the install target to move your executables and
> libraries
> > out of the build directory and into the install directory of
> choice.  The
> > install directory is configured with the variable CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.
> >
> > Justin
> >
> > On Wednesday 24 October 2007 10:49:37 Mark Wyszomierski wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is there some way to create an additional target for built binaries?
> > > Besides the default location (not sure where that's defined
> > > actually...) I'd like to have my projects all dump their build exes or
> > > libraries into 'C:\test' for example. Is it possible?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mark
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