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

[Eric Noulard]

2010/9/23 edA-qa mort-ora-y <eda-qa at disemia.com>:
> On 09/23/2010 12:12 AM, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
>>> If anybody has a good resource, or can recommend some best practices,
>>> that would be great.
>> Use CMake and CPack?  See the wiki, and elsewhere on the internet.
>
> Yes, I am of course using CMake. My question is more along of the lines
> of how to best achieve the requirements of packaging. The "install"
> command on its own is pretty weak and locating and copying files
> requires all sorts of additional work (at least when it comes to
> finding/copying libraries, data files are fine).
>
> So I was wondering if there are some good, easy, or common ways to
> achieve packaging library dependencies.

Some CMake tries to help for that task.

InstallRequiredSystemLibraries.cmake  --> Windows only
GetPrerequisite.cmake
BundleUtilities.cmake

I think BundleUtilities try to achieve what you want, as far as I know
it was designed for MacOS but has been updated to work on
Linux and Windows as well.

GetPrerequisite is a basic helper which helps you find prerequisite
for an executable or library.

If you dig the mailing list about it you should find more valuable informations
about those.


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