[CMake] Question about distribution questions

[Joachim Ziegler]

Hello Eric,

thank you very much for your very quick response. Yes, I am willing to 
write some documentation on the Wiki as soon as I have understood the 
basic principles of how to make a package.

Eric Noulard wrote:
> Write you CMakeLists.txt
> make it work for:
>   1 -  compiling your project (i.e. no error when calling 'make')

This already works on my machine.

>   2 -  installing your project (i.e. no error when calling 'make install')

This does not. I have no target "install". Browsing through

http://www.cmake.org/HTML/WritingCMakeLists.html
http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Examples.html

I discover nothing about how to create this target. I suppose (sorry for 
my stupidity) it has something to do with the INSTALL command mentioned on

http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Documentation.html

I have already played a bit with this, by means of trial and error, but 
frankly speaking, I do not understand the documentation of INSTALL or 
INSTALL_FILES (moreover, I do not want anything to be installed, I just 
want to have a.h, a.cpp, b.h, b.cpp, main.cpp compiled and packaged for 
delivery). Maybe I understand something completely wrong here.


> The customer should do:
> 
> 1 - unpack i.e. tar zxvf <packagename>.tar.gz
>      which creates
> 2 - create a build tree
>      run cmake

So the customer MUST have cmake installed!?

> We did add a paragraph on this in our TSP Programming Tutorial:
> http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/tsp/documentations/tsp_programming_tutorial-1.0.pdf

Nice document. And you write at the very beginning:

"1. Check you have the CMake installed (see A.1)."

OK, this answers my question! (Chances are high that my customer will 
not accept this, but that's his problem :-) )

> I may write a CMake+CPack primer if I found time.
> I may review yours if you write one :=)

This is what I call an offer!

Thank you again,
Joachim