[CMake] CMake CVS gratuitous /bin directory

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Brad King wrote:
> Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>> I'm using CMake CVS.  My .dlls are being installed to 
>> ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin.  Everything else is being installed to 
>> ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX} like I thought I told it to.  Is this a bug 
>> or a feature?  It feels like a bug because of course things crash 
>> since the .dlls aren't in the right directory.  Here's my snippet:
>
> Read the documentation of the INSTALL_TARGETS command.  You have to 
> use the RUNTIME_DIRECTORY option to specify the location of the .dll 
> part of a SHARED library.  The default is /bin for SHARED libraries 
> because most projects use /bin.  For a MODULE or STATIC library the 
> install location you specify should be used.

I note that on Cygwin and MinGW, there is no .lib component by default.
They just link to .dlls directly (and interop with MSVC generated dlls
isn't straightforward).  So for those compiler targets, if I have a
target "whatever", and I say I want INSTALL_TARGETS(/ whatever), it
should put whatever.dll where I said.  There is no other file to consider.

For MSVC, where one has both whatever.dll and whatever.lib, I think the
pair should not be broken up unless I explicitly specify
RUNTIME_DIRECTORY.  i.e. INSTALL_TARGETS(/ whatever ...) should put them
both in /.

Also I am noticing an error that looks like a MSVC bias.  I changed my 
code to:

INSTALL_TARGETS(/ RUNTIME_DIRECTORY /
   libchicken libuchicken libchicken-static libuchicken-static)
IF(WIN32 AND NOT CYGWIN)
   INSTALL_TARGETS(/ RUNTIME_DIRECTORY /
     libchicken_gui libchicken_gui-static)
ENDIF(WIN32 AND NOT CYGWIN)

My actual files are:

Brandon J. Van Every at KAHLO ~/msys/chicken-2.216
$ ls
CMakeCache.txt       chicken.exe          libchicken-static.a
CMakeFiles           cmake_install.cmake  libchicken.dll
Makefile             csc.c                libchicken_gui-static.a
chicken-profile.c    csc.exe              libchicken_gui.dll
chicken-profile.exe  csc.scm              libuchicken-static.a
chicken-setup.c      csi-static.exe       libuchicken.dll
chicken-setup.exe    csi.c
chicken-static.exe   csi.exe

which is the normal way that MinGW works.  No stub .lib files.  But the 
install appears to be looking for .lib files:

Brandon J. Van Every at KAHLO ~/msys/chicken-2.216
$ make install
Running cmake script file cmake_install.cmake
-- Install configuration: "Release"
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/chicken-ffi-macros.scm
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/chicken-match-macros.scm
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/chicken-more-macros.scm
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/csibatch.bat
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/chicken.h
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/chicken.1
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/csi.1
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/csc.1
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/chicken-setup.1
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/chicken-profile.1
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/chicken.pdf
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/chicken.exe
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/chicken-profile.exe
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/chicken-setup.exe
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/chicken-static.exe
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/csc.exe
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/csi.exe
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/csi-static.exe
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken/libchicken.lib
-- Installing E:/Program Files/Chicken//libchicken.dll
CMake Error: Error in cmake code at
e:/devel/msys/chicken-2.216/cmake_install.cmake:58:
FILE found file: E:/Program Files/Chicken/ where expecting directory 
with the same name.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every