[CMake] CPACK not generating binary install

[David Cole]

INSTALL rule DESTINATION arguments are intended to be non-full path
directory names, that get placed underneath CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.

When CPack runs, it tries to build the install target after setting a
value into CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.

Since your install rules ignore this, by giving full path DESTINATION
values, the install tree that CPack builds does not get all the right
stuff copied into it.

Try using just "bin" and "lib" as the DESTINATION values, and then
adjusting CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to put the root of the install tree
where you want it.

Then it should "just work" with CPack.


HTH,
David


On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Darrell Langford
<darrell.langford at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to use CPACK to generate a binary installer, I can get a source
> installer to sort of work, but I don't need the source at all.  We do out of
> source builds, but I have CMAKE place my libs and bins back into the source
> tree under a parent/project/lib and parent/project/bin directory for each
> project
> Make install installs everything to
> parent/application/bin parent/application/lib parent/application/data
> I have a large directory structure with multiple libraries and a single
> executable setup like this
> parent/project/
> My Parent CMakeLists.txt file looks like this:
> project(parent)
> set(COMMON_INSTALL_DIR ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/../MyProgram)
> set(COMMON_LIB_INSTALLS ${COMMON_INSTALL_DIR}/lib)
> set(COMMON_BIN_INSTALLS ${COMMON_INSTALL_DIR}/bin)
>
> INCLUDE(CPack)
> add_subdirectory(project1)
> add_subdirectory(project2)
> add_subdirectory(projectApp)
>
> If I just leave it at the parent tree, then make package creates empty .tgz
> trees.
> Under Project1 it looks like this
> Project1/CMakeLists.txt
> project(project1)
> SET(LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/lib)
> SET(EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/lib)
> add_subdirectory(src)
> Project1/src/CMakeLists.txt
> usual stuff to get a build and
> add_library(project1 SHARED ${PROJECT1_SOURCES})
> install(TARGETS project1 LIBRARY DESTINATION ${COMMON_LIB_INSTALLS})
>
> If I populate the INCLUDE(CPack) across the three cmakes, then it builds a
> source fine, but no binary.
> Everything else works perfect for me, make, make install, we even have
> testing setup under a parent/project1/test directory, it's just CPACK that
> is causing me some headaches.
> So what I want from this is when I run make install it goes to the directory
> parent/MyProgram with /lib /data /bin folders under it
> and then I really just want CPack to package that Folder up, I can force
> this using SET(CPACK_INSTALLED_DIRECTORIES
> "${COMMON_INSTALL_DIR};MyProgram") but I was trying to figure out why the
> other doesn't work.
> Thanks for your help,
> D
>
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