[CMake] install(TARGETS) does not work with configuration-specific destinations

[David Cole]

Updating the documentation for this would help... Do you have time to
propose a patch which updates the wording of the documentation to
stress the importance of parameter ordering?



On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Alessio <masariello+cmake.org at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah! Specifying the CONFIGURATIONS argument *before* the DESTINATION ones
> works as intended. It would really help if the documentation was changed to
> reflect the importance of parameter ordering here.
>
>             install(TARGETS ${target}
>                 COMPONENT ${component}
>                 CONFIGURATIONS Release MinSizeRel RelWithDebInfo
>                 RUNTIME DESTINATION
> "${${PROJECT_NAME}_INSTALL_RUNTIME_RELEASE}"
>                 LIBRARY DESTINATION
> "${${PROJECT_NAME}_INSTALL_RUNTIME_RELEASE}")
>             install(TARGETS ${target}
>                 COMPONENT ${component}
>                 CONFIGURATIONS Debug PDebug
>                 RUNTIME DESTINATION
> "${${PROJECT_NAME}_INSTALL_RUNTIME_DEBUG}"
>                 LIBRARY DESTINATION
> "${${PROJECT_NAME}_INSTALL_RUNTIME_DEBUG}")
>
> On 8 June 2015 at 18:40, Alessio <masariello+cmake.org at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I forgot to mention that, by contrast, elsewhere I have the following
>> working code. So install(FILES) seems to work fine with multiple calls for
>> different configurations.
>>
>> install(
>>     FILES "$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:corelib>/some_file.txt"
>>     COMPONENT platform
>>     DESTINATION "${${PROJECT_NAME}_INSTALL_RUNTIME_RELEASE}"
>>     CONFIGURATIONS Release RelWithDebInfo MinSizeRel)
>> install(
>>     FILES "$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:corelib>/some_file.txt"
>>     COMPONENT platform
>>     DESTINATION "${${PROJECT_NAME}_INSTALL_RUNTIME_DEBUG}"
>>     CONFIGURATIONS Debug PDebug)
>>
>> On 8 June 2015 at 18:32, Alessio <masariello+cmake.org at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> The below CMake code is causing my targets to get installed twice in the
>>> same tarball when I invoke cpack with the following command line
>>>
>>>     "${CPACK_COMMAND}" -G ${cpack_gen} --config
>>> "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${package_cfg_file}" -C "$<CONFIGURATION>"
>>>
>>> The generated cmake_install.cmake in fact contains two fiel(INSTALL)
>>> sections for every target like the one at the bottom.
>>>
>>> Using \${CMAKE_INSTALL_CONFIG_NAME} as suggested in reference (1) does
>>> not quite work for me. I would like the installed directory to have a name
>>> of my choosing, rather than relying on the name of the configuration.
>>>
>>> Can this be done at all? Is there a single-call install(TARGETS)
>>> signature that gives me what I want?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for any light you can shed on this.
>>> -alessio
>>>
>>>
>>> THE CMAKE INSTALL CODE WITH THE PROBLEM
>>> ---------------------------------------
>>>     set(${PROJECT_NAME}_INSTALL_RUNTIME_RELEASE        "release")
>>>     set(${PROJECT_NAME}_INSTALL_RUNTIME_DEBUG          "debug")
>>>
>>>     install(TARGETS ${target}
>>>         COMPONENT ${component}
>>>         RUNTIME DESTINATION "${${PROJECT_NAME}_INSTALL_RUNTIME_RELEASE}"
>>>         LIBRARY DESTINATION "${${PROJECT_NAME}_INSTALL_RUNTIME_RELEASE}"
>>>         CONFIGURATIONS Release MinSizeRel RelWithDebInfo)
>>>     install(TARGETS ${target}
>>>         COMPONENT ${component}
>>>         RUNTIME DESTINATION "${${PROJECT_NAME}_INSTALL_RUNTIME_DEBUG}"
>>>         LIBRARY DESTINATION "${${PROJECT_NAME}_INSTALL_RUNTIME_DEBUG}"
>>>         CONFIGURATIONS Debug PDebug)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> SAMPLE cmake_install.cmake SECTION
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> if(NOT CMAKE_INSTALL_COMPONENT OR "${CMAKE_INSTALL_COMPONENT}" STREQUAL
>>> "platform")
>>>   if("${CMAKE_INSTALL_CONFIG_NAME}" MATCHES "^([Dd][Ee][Bb][Uu][Gg])$")
>>>     file(INSTALL DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/release" TYPE
>>> SHARED_LIBRARY FILES "E:/Views/build/testapp/Debug/testapp-d.dll")
>>>   elseif("${CMAKE_INSTALL_CONFIG_NAME}" MATCHES
>>> "^([Rr][Ee][Ll][Ee][Aa][Ss][Ee])$")
>>>     file(INSTALL DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/release" TYPE
>>> SHARED_LIBRARY FILES "E:/Views/build/testapp/Release/testapp.dll")
>>>   elseif("${CMAKE_INSTALL_CONFIG_NAME}" MATCHES
>>> "^([Mm][Ii][Nn][Ss][Ii][Zz][Ee][Rr][Ee][Ll])$")
>>>     file(INSTALL DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/release" TYPE
>>> SHARED_LIBRARY FILES "E:/Views/build/testapp/MinSizeRel/testapp-ms.dll")
>>>   elseif("${CMAKE_INSTALL_CONFIG_NAME}" MATCHES
>>> "^([Rr][Ee][Ll][Ww][Ii][Tt][Hh][Dd][Ee][Bb][Ii][Nn][Ff][Oo])$")
>>>     file(INSTALL DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/release" TYPE
>>> SHARED_LIBRARY FILES "E:/Views/build/testapp/RelWithDebInfo/testapp-rd.dll")
>>>   elseif("${CMAKE_INSTALL_CONFIG_NAME}" MATCHES
>>> "^([Pp][Dd][Ee][Bb][Uu][Gg])$")
>>>     file(INSTALL DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/release" TYPE
>>> SHARED_LIBRARY FILES "E:/Views/build/testapp/PDebug/testapp-pd.dll")
>>>   endif()
>>> endif()
>>>
>>>
>>> REFERENCES
>>> ----------
>>> (1) http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2010-May/036979.html
>>
>>
>
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