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CMake Cookbook

You're reading from   CMake Cookbook Building, testing, and packaging modular software with modern CMake

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788470711
Length 606 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Radovan Bast Radovan Bast
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting up Your System 2. From a Simple Executable to Libraries FREE CHAPTER 3. Detecting the Environment 4. Detecting External Libraries and Programs 5. Creating and Running Tests 6. Configure-time and Build-time Operations 7. Generating Source Code 8. Structuring Projects 9. The Superbuild Pattern 10. Mixed-language Projects 11. Writing an Installer 12. Packaging Projects 13. Building Documentation 14. Alternative Generators and Cross-compilation 15. Testing Dashboards 16. Porting a Project to CMake 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Porting install targets

We can now configure, compile, link, and test the code, but we are missing the install target, which we will add in this section.

This is the Autotools approach to building and installing code:

$ ./configure --prefix=/some/install/path
$ make
$ make install

And this is the CMake way:

$ mkdir -p build
$ cd build
$ cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/some/install/path ..
$ cmake --build .
$ cmake --build . --target install

To add an install target, we add the following snippet in src/CMakeLists.txt:

install(
TARGETS
vim
RUNTIME DESTINATION
${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR}
)

In this example, we only install the executable. The Vim project installs a large number of files along with the binary (symbolic links and documentation files). To keep this section digestible, we don't install all other files in this example migration. For your own project, you should verify...

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