[CMake] Copying DLLs to output directory

[Daniel Schepler]

And what if there are more dependencies?  For example, we have a project here that uses Qt, Boost, OGRE, MYGUI, GDAL, Protobuf and EXPAT at least.  And then if some of those builds aren't self-contained, you could add in dependencies like OpenSSL, libjpeg, libpng, etc.  It seems like all those PATH entries could easily end up overflowing Windows' limit on the length of PATH.
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Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: CMake [mailto:cmake-bounces at cmake.org] On Behalf Of Bill Somerville
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 12:52 PM
To: cmake at cmake.org
Subject: Re: [CMake] Copying DLLs to output directory

On 31/10/2014 19:42, Michael Jackson wrote:
> Never said it was pretty, but here is the code I use for Qt4 based projects. I think I had to revamp a lot of this for Qt5. I call it like so:
>
> CMP_COPY_QT4_RUNTIME_LIBRARIES( "QtCore;QtGui;QtNetwork")
This seems an awful lot of messing around when qt-project.org already dump all the debug and release libraries into the installation bin directory so all you need is to ensure that the installation bin directory is on your PATH when you run or debug executables, just like you have to to build using the tools like moc, qmake, dumpcpp, qrc, etc..

IMHO put he Qt bin directory on PATH for debugging and use BundleUtils FixupBundle to make deployable kits. No need to do any manual or scripted copying of libraries at all.

Regards
Bill.
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