[CMake] symbolic links

[Eric Noulard]

2012/2/17 Steven Wilson <steven.wesley.wilson at gmail.com>:
> I have a large software system that depends on third party libraries.   The
> CMake system that builds this software uses install() to copy these
> libraries into the appropriate place in the layout.   On some systems I
> would like to provide my developers with the option of not copying these
> libraries and instead creating symbolic links to the libraries in the
> software layout.   Using symbolic links would save a great deal of disk
> space for developers when they have many different versions(debug, profile,
> etc...) of the software build system.    Is there a way to create symbolic
> links to files rather than copy files at install time?

You could certainly achieve that using
install(CODE
or
install(SCRIPT

and execute_process with cmake -E create_symlink
that said it will only work on unix.




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