[CMake] Install Export and include

[Michael Wild]

On 22. Apr, 2010, at 14:44 , Nicola Brisotto wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm building a library QXmppClient that export properties with INSTALL (EXPORT ...)
> How can I also export a variable with the include path of the library?
> 
> In the executable project I use find_package(QXmppClient). The target QXmppClient is imported so I can link with:
> TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(myexecutable QXmppClient  )
> 
> This is a snippet from the QXmppClient CMakeLists.txt:
> 
> ADD_LIBRARY(QXmppClient ${SRC})
> TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES( QXmppClient ${LIB} )
> 
> INSTALL(TARGETS QXmppClient EXPORT QXmppClientConfig
> 	DESTINATION lib/QXmppClient )
> INSTALL(FILES
> 	${Qt4_MOC}
> 	DESTINATION include/QXmppClient)
> #Export Target into include dir
> INSTALL(EXPORT QXmppClientConfig DESTINATION lib/QXmppClient )
> 
> 
> Nicola Brisotto

Call your export file QXmppClientExports instead, create a file QXmppClientConfig.cmake.in in which you include the QXmppClientExports.cmake file and configure it appropriately. In that same file you can then set QXMPPCLIENT_INCLUDE_DIR, QXMPPCLIENT_LIBRARIES etc.

HTH

Michael