[CMake] Visual C++ and cpack

[Michael Jackson]

 If that really is your exact code from cmake you are building a
static library only. There must be another argument to the add_library
command that says SHARED. With out that argument cmake will always
generate a static library build.

  Also Visual Studio will generate the "Release" subdirectory for you.
I do not think you can change that behavior.

 Lastly you may want to consider naming the plugins with a .plugin
extension so the cpack rules know the difference between a shared
library and a tripe plugin base in file extension which tends to work
better in my experience.

Hope that helps
Mike Jackson

On Wednesday, June 1, 2011, Mathias Bavay <bavay at slf.ch> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've been using cmake and cpak on Linux for my project (a library) without any problems. I'm now trying to get it to work with Visual C++ Express 10. It compiles fine, and puts files (from the project directory) into meteoio/Release (both a .dll and a .lib). When running cpack, it only packs the .lib file, and I can not find any way to also properly get the dll.
>
> Here is a sample of my code for compiling the library:
> SET(LIBPREFIX "lib") #make sure ALL plugins are libXXX for ALL plateforms
> SET(CMAKE_IMPORT_LIBRARY_PREFIX "lib") #for Visual C++ import libraries
>     SET(SHAREDNAME ${PROJECT_NAME})
>     ADD_LIBRARY(${SHAREDNAME} ${meteoio_sources})
>     TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(${SHAREDNAME} ${LIBPROJ})
>     SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${SHAREDNAME} PROPERTIES
>         PREFIX "${LIBPREFIX}"
>         LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY lib
>         ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY lib
>         CLEAN_DIRECT_OUTPUT 1
>         VERSION "${VERSION_MAJOR}.${VERSION_MINOR}.${VERSION_PATCH}"
>         SOVERSION "${VERSION_MAJOR}"
>     )
>     INSTALL(TARGETS ${SHAREDNAME}
>         RUNTIME DESTINATION bin
>         LIBRARY DESTINATION lib
>         ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib
>         COMPONENT libraries
>     )
>
> First issue, despite specifying that I want the library to be under lib, it goes into a Release directory under the source file's directory. But when cpack should find and pack it, it only gets the .lib and always misses the dll:
> IF(WIN32) #handle the special case of WIN32 needing import libraries
>     FILE(GLOB importlibs "lib/libmeteoio*.lib*")
>     SET(DLL_EXT "dll")
> ENDIF(WIN32)
> FILE(GLOB solibs "lib/libmeteoio*.${DLL_EXT}*")
> FILE(GLOB alibs "lib/*.${STAT_EXT}*")
> INSTALL(FILES ${solibs} ${importlibs} ${alibs} DESTINATION lib COMPONENT libraries)
>
> What am I doing wrong? It works perfectly fine under Linux (obviously, only packing a .so), but not with Visual C++... The whole code can be seen at https://slfsmm.indefero.net/p/meteoio/source/tree/HEAD/
>
> Thank you very much,
> Mathias Bavay
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