[CMake] rename of target on install

[Micha Renner]

Am Freitag, den 26.03.2010, 08:33 +0100 schrieb Michael Wild:
> On 25. Mar, 2010, at 23:41 , Hai Nguyen wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Is there a way for me to rename the executable during the install? I'm using
> > the same CMakeList.txt to build several versions and I'd like to install
> > them to different directories but with the version number stripped off of
> > the executable.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > - Hai
> 
> I don't think there is a way of doing that. But what you can do is setting the OUTPUT_NAME and RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY target properties using the SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES command. This way, you can already reproduce the executable names and directory structure in the build tree.
> 
Maybe one can use "The PROGRAMS signature" of install

install(PROGRAMS files... DESTINATION <dir>
          [PERMISSIONS permissions...]
          [CONFIGURATIONS [Debug|Release|...]]
          [COMPONENT <component>]
          [RENAME <name>] [OPTIONAL])
See:
www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-docs.html#command:install

Micha