[CMake] Win32: Find location of VS redistributable runtime files ?

[James Bigler]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Stephen Collyer
<scollyer at netspinner.co.uk>wrote:

>
> 2009/4/2 Philip Lowman <philip at yhbt.com>
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Stephen Collyer <scollyer at netspinner.co.uk
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> In the course of installation, I want to copy the redistributable C++
>>> runtime libs
>>> directory from VS into my deliverable package. However, this should work
>>> with
>>> both VS8 and VS9. Could someone tell me how I can detect the build
>>> environment
>>> and locate the appropriate directory to do this ? For example, if
>>> building with
>>> VS9 I want to locate the directory:
>>>
>>> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
>>> 9.0\VC\redist\x86\Microsoft.VC90.CRT
>>>
>>> I'm guessing that there's a CMAKE_* variable that allow me to do this,
>>> but I'm not sure which.
>>
>>
>> You can include InstallRequiredSystemFiles for this. See:
>>
>> http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake2.6docs.html#module:InstallRequiredSystemLibraries
>>
>> VS9 support was added to this script and I believe it was first added in
>> CMake 2.6.0
>>
>> --
>> Philip Lowman
>>
>
>
> Thanks for that - I'd completely forgotten about the existence of that
> module.
>
> I've tried it and I have one question though - it seems to dump the
> manifest and
> DLLs into the bin directory - it was my understanding that these had to go
> into
> a subdirectory of bin called Microsoft.VC80.CRT. Am I misinformed ?



I just recently shipped something with the redistributables, and it worked
just fine putting them next to the dll (i.e. bin directory).

James
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