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

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 23 September 2010, Eric Noulard wrote:
> 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.

..and it would be great if while doing that you could also put something in 
the wiki: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/CMake#CPack :-)

Alex