[CMake] Trouble setting LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY

[Michael Jackson]

Did you try from a clean build directory? Blow away EVERYTHING in the  
build directory and start over.
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Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio



On Jun 4, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Lober, Randy wrote:

> Thanks for the response and suggestion Mike.
>
> I had tried directly setting the value  
> CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY once before to no avail but following  
> your idea I tried all three again as you list below. Unfortunately,  
> this still does not succeed in defining a non-default creation  
> location for my targets. Again, even using the commands below no  
> values for the three variables are being written into my  
> CMakeCache.txt file.
>
> I have changed the rest of my operations in the file to work with  
> the targets from the default location but it is troubling to me that  
> this command (seemingly) is not working for me. I will be moving on  
> to much more difficult builds soon and I will need this functionality.
>
> If anyone has any other insights I would greatly appreciate them.
>
> Thanks, Randy
>
>
> On 6/4/09 1:22 PM, "Michael Jackson" <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net>  
> wrote:
>
> # ---------- Setup output Directories -------------------------
> SET (CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
>    ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/Bin )
>
> # --------- Setup the Executable output Directory -------------
> SET (CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
>    ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/Bin )
>
> # --------- Setup the Executable output Directory -------------
> SET (CMAKE_ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
>    ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/Bin )
>
> Will put every library and executable into a subdirectory called "Bin"
>
> _________________________________________________________
> Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
> BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
> Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio
>
>
>
> On Jun 4, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Lober, Randy wrote:
>
> > Hello, I am a new user of cmake and I am running version 2.6-patch 4
> > on Linux.
> >
> > I am setting up a simple project to learn cmake and most everything
> > has worked just as expected except for my attempts to define where
> > an output library target is to be created. Here is part of the
> > CMakeLists.txt
> >
> > project(ZLIB C)
> > SET(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/install)
> > SET(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Release)
> >
> > set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER gcc)
> > add_definitions(-O3)
> > set(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS ON)
> > cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)
> >
> > set(ZLIB_PUBLIC_HDRS
> >     zconf.h
> >     zlib.h
> > )
> >
> > set(ZLIB_PRIVATE_HDRS
> >     crc32.h
> >     deflate.h
> >     inffast.h
> >     inffixed.h
> >     inflate.h
> >     inftrees.h
> >     trees.h
> >     zutil.h
> > )
> >
> > set(ZLIB_SRCS
> >     adler32.c
> >     compress.c
> >     crc32.c
> >     deflate.c
> >     inflate.c
> >     infback.c
> >     inftrees.c
> >     inffast.c
> >     gzio.c
> >     trees.c
> >     uncompr.c
> >     zutil.c
> > )
> >
> > set(ZLIB_TEST_SRCS
> >     example.c
> > )
> >
> > set(ZLIB_MAN_SRCS
> >     zlib.3
> > )
> >
> > add_library(z ${ZLIB_SRCS} ${ZLIB_PUBLIC_HDRS} ${ZLIB_PRIVATE_HDRS})
> > set_target_properties(z PROPERTIES DEFINE_SYMBOL ZLIB_DLL)
> > set(LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/lib)
> >
> > add_executable(example ${ZLIB_TEST_SRCS})
> > set(RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/bin)
> >
> > add_dependencies(example z)
> >
> > target_link_libraries(example z)
> >
> > install(TARGETS z DESTINATION lib )
> > install(FILES ${ZLIB_PUBLIC_HDRS} DESTINATION include)
> > install(TARGETS example DESTINATION bin)
> > install(FILES ${ZLIB_MAN_SRCS} DESTINATION share/man/man3)
> >
> > I have tried many variations of setting the location for the target
> > z to be created (and the executable “example”), both the new style
> > as shown above and the old style (LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH), using
> > variables as above and using absolute paths and nothing works.
> > libz.so is always dropped directly into my build directory.
> >
> > Interesting, if I hand edit the cache file and add the variable
> > CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY to change the library creation
> > location it works: why does my cmake configuration not respect the
> > above commands and write this into the cache file automatically?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --Randy
> >
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> --Randy
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