[CMake] Installing an entire directory structure?

[David Cole]

There was a brief discussion along these lines just last week:
http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/cmake/2005-March/thread.html#6228

On Windows XP, you can use xcopy to do what you want. I don't know if cp 
on Unix will give you a cross platform way to get this done via a CMake 
invocation. See the thread mentioned above, particularly the last 
response from Andy Cedilnik. To do what Andy says, see the latest 
Mastering CMake book on pp. 54-55. It shows you how to use 
POST_INSTALL_SCRIPT to run a *.cmake file after an install target is 
installed. Use SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES to set the script and then have the 
script do your copy for you. Also, as mentioned in the other thread, it 
might be nice to consider adding a "copy this directory verbatim" option 
to CMake in the future.

On Windows XP, works with or without dest_dir existing in the first place:
xcopy "source_dir" "dest_dir" /E /V /I /Q /H /R /K /Y
(Do xcopy /? to find out what all the switches mean.)


HTH,
David


Tanner Lovelace wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>The project I'm working on has a directory structure that
>just needs to be copied verbatim into the installation
>directory. Is there an easier way to do this other than specifying
>each a regex in each directory to be copied over?  In other
>words, is there a way to basically do a recursive copy
>upon installation?  Or am I thinking about this the wrong way?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Tanner Lovelace
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