[CMake] Rebuilding cmake itself on Windows

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

Hi Paul,

Set option CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to a location of your choice

Then, build INSTALL target

Hth
Jc


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:

> Hi all; I need to rebuild cmake to incorporate a fix that has been added
> since the last release (I could get a nightly build but I was hoping to
> use released cmake with just the fix I need to reduce risk) and which is
> causing my builds to fail sometimes.  For Linux and MacOS this was quite
> simple using bootstrap.
>
> For Windows I have an older version of cmake installed, which is fine,
> and I'm able to build the version I want with this (VS 2010 installed):
>
>   git clone git:.../cmake.git
>   cd cmake
>   git cherry-pick <commit>
>   cmake .
>   devenv CMake.sln /Rebuild Release
>
> So far so good.  I see cmake.exe etc. and it works if I run it.  But now
> I want to "install" this newly-built cmake into a specific location, and
> I don't know how to do it (I could copy it by hand of course but that
> seems sub-optimal).  I really would like to do it via the command line.
>
> What's the operation I should use to do the installation of cmake?
> Also, for Linux/MacOS I run bootstrap.sh with the --prefix flag to
> specify where to install.  How can I do this kind of thing for the
> Windows build?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
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