[CMake] rename of target on install

[Hai Nguyen]

Your first suggestion worked out fantastically.

Thanks,
Hai

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 26. Mar, 2010, at 9:23 , Micha Renner wrote:
>
> > Am Freitag, den 26.03.2010, 08:33 +0100 schrieb Michael Wild:
> >> On 25. Mar, 2010, at 23:41 , Hai Nguyen wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way for me to rename the executable during the install? I'm
> using
> >>> the same CMakeList.txt to build several versions and I'd like to
> install
> >>> them to different directories but with the version number stripped off
> of
> >>> the executable.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> - Hai
> >>
> >> I don't think there is a way of doing that. But what you can do is
> setting the OUTPUT_NAME and RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY target properties using
> the SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES command. This way, you can already reproduce the
> executable names and directory structure in the build tree.
> >>
> > Maybe one can use "The PROGRAMS signature" of install
> >
> > install(PROGRAMS files... DESTINATION <dir>
> >          [PERMISSIONS permissions...]
> >          [CONFIGURATIONS [Debug|Release|...]]
> >          [COMPONENT <component>]
> >          [RENAME <name>] [OPTIONAL])
> > See:
> > www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-docs.html#command:install
> >
> > Micha
>
> This is possible using the LOCATION target property. But I think the other
> approach is cleaner and less confusing.
>
> Michael
>
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