[CMake] symbolic links

Steven Wilson steven.wesley.wilson at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 16:20:16 EST 2012


Thanks Eric,  This solution should work and Unix is the only place where I
need this to happen anyway.

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2012/2/17 Steven Wilson <steven.wesley.wilson at gmail.com>:
> > I have a large software system that depends on third party libraries.
> The
> > CMake system that builds this software uses install() to copy these
> > libraries into the appropriate place in the layout.   On some systems I
> > would like to provide my developers with the option of not copying these
> > libraries and instead creating symbolic links to the libraries in the
> > software layout.   Using symbolic links would save a great deal of disk
> > space for developers when they have many different versions(debug,
> profile,
> > etc...) of the software build system.    Is there a way to create
> symbolic
> > links to files rather than copy files at install time?
>
> You could certainly achieve that using
> install(CODE
> or
> install(SCRIPT
>
> and execute_process with cmake -E create_symlink
> that said it will only work on unix.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Erk
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