[CMake] cmake-gui on windows and qt5 dlls

[Konstantin Tokarev]

14.08.2017, 16:01, "Craig Scott" <craig.scott at crascit.com>:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Clément Gregoire <lectem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be possible to move it to a subfolder with the DLLs and put a link next to cmake and ccmake? Executables look for DLLs in their directory and it wouldn't pollute the PATH
>
> Symlinks are available on NTFS filesystems from Vista onwards. If the user installed CMake on, say, a FAT filesystem instead or on an old XP box (CMake appears to still try to support that), then symlinks wouldn't be available from what I can make out. One could potentially use a forwarding script of some kind though to achieve essentially the same thing.

This tool might be useful

https://github.com/chocolatey/shimgen

>
>> I personally like to be able to launch it through the command line, it is faster than looking for it and then browse for the folder.
>>
>> Le lun. 14 août 2017 à 11:48, Craig Scott <craig.scott at crascit.com> a écrit :
>>> This is a common problem, not just with CMake. I'm wondering if there's any real need for cmake-gui to be on the PATH at all, since it will usually be invoked by a desktop or menu icon. At the moment though, it is in the same directory as the cmake and ccmake executables which have a much stronger case for being on the PATH. There's a reasonable argument that cmake-gui should be in a different directory, then it wouldn't be an issue if shared Qt libs were used rather than static. I'll bring this up on the developer mailing list and see what discussions yield.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Christian Ehrlicher <Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I recently upgraded from cmake 3.3 to 3.9 on windows and got some problems during my build because it looks like the pre-compile binaries for windows are now shipping Qt5 - dlls instead static compile libs (since 3.5 afaics).
>>>> The problem is, that I had the path to cmake *before* the path to my own Qt5 libaries. So during the build / run of my application, the wrong libraries were loaded and I got a symbol lookup error.
>>>> Would it be possible to use the static Qt5 libs instead or maybe prefix the Qt5 libs shipped with cmake-gui somehow?
>>>>
>>>> Thx,
>>>> Christian
>>>>
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