[CMake] Installing Find*.cmake to the correct folder using NSIS configured by cmake on windows platform

Eric Noulard eric.noulard at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 03:59:58 EST 2010


2010/1/26 Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com>:
>
> On 26. Jan, 2010, at 9:02 , Mika.Rajala at patria.fi wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> How can i tell the NSIS installer, using cmake, to install my Find*.cmake
>> script to the ${CMAKE_ROOT}/Modules directory?
>>
>> Writing that to the "install" command doesn't work.
>>
>> I did try googling for anwsers for the better part of yesterday so if it
>> can be found on the internet, please provide some assistance.
>>
>> -mika
>
> You shouldn't do that! For your own project, don't write a FindXXX.cmake, but a XXXConfig.cmake or XXX-config.cmake (as described by the documentation of find_package). Also, refer to the same documentation to find out in which directories CMake tries to find such a file.
>
> In order to write such a XXXConfig.cmake file, you should also look into install(EXPORT ...).

Michael is right and I should have tell you that too,
May be installing your FindXXX.cmake is not the good way to go at all.

see reference on XXXXConfig.cmake there
http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2010-January/034778.html

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