[CMake] best practice way of copying libraries to an install package

[Ryan Pavlik]

  On 9/22/2010 2:39 PM, edA-qa mort-ora-y wrote:
> I need to produce a nice self-contained packaged of executables and
> libraries for my project. I've looked around the web and found many very
> distinct ways of achieving this. I was wondering if there is some best
> practice related to this.
>
> Ideally I'd like to work from the same variables I use for linking, but
> I think I've already given up on that and know I'll have to hand-list
> every library. But still then I have these issues:
>
> - on windows the libraries are often the .lib, but I need to locate the
> associated DLL
> - on linux I need to ensure I'm copying the actual file an not a symlink
> - between debug/release I seem to have to list the files twice
> - I'd prefer a cross-platform solution, I don't want to code the copying
> once for each target platform
>
> If anybody has a good resource, or can recommend some best practices,
> that would be great.

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Ryan

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