[CMake] Cpack and cmake's install commands with absolute destination value

[David Cole]

DESTDIR will not work with Windows style paths including a "C:". In fact, it
may not work at all on Windows. In general, it's a bad idea to force files
into a C:/work (or any other non-standard) directory. Windows installers
typically default to putting their programs and all of their files into the
"C:/Program Files" directory. Some will also install per-user files into
each user's My Documents folder.
The well-supported type of installer produced by the default cpack/NSIS
combination is a self-contained directory of files that is installed to an
end-user-choosable directory (which happens to default to C:/Program
Files)...

Why do you need to install files to a C:/work directory? Can they not be
installed to a "work" sub-directory of your program's installation instead?

A good Windows program will be entirely self-contained, or depend only on
system components that are already there.

You can certainly customize the NSIS script to install files to a particular
directory if you must, but I would strongly recommend against it.


HTH,
David


On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Alan W. Irwin <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca>wrote:

> On 2008-08-08 12:10+0400 Slaykovsky Vladimir wrote:
>
>  I have a problem creating packages with cpack when using install commands
>> with absolute detination value:
>>
>> install(TARGETS MyExecutable RUNTIME DESTINATION
>> c:/work/cmake/cpack_build/install/bin)
>>
>> In this case cpack cannot find my target and doesn't include it in
>> package.
>> If I change detination to relative value like this:
>>
>> install(TARGETS MyExecutable RUNTIME DESTINATION bin)
>>
>> then MyExecutable is included to package. Please, help, how can I use
>> absolute install paths with cpack? I've searched for apropriate CPACK_*
>> configuration option, but found nothing
>>
>
> See http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=4993 and its resolution
> using CPACK_SET_DESTDIR.  (Or else search this list for posts concerning
> CPACK_SET_DESTDIR.)  I haven't actually tried setting
> CPACK_SET_DESTDIR to ON myself yet, but I am assured it works.
>
> Alan
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