CMake Cookbook

Getting ready

We will use the source code for the message library presented in Chapter 10, Writing an Installer, Recipe 3, Exporting your targets. The project tree consists of the following directories and files:

.├── cmake│   ├── coffee.icns│   ├── Info.plist.in│   └── messageConfig.cmake.in├── CMakeCPack.cmake├── CMakeLists.txt├── INSTALL.md├── LICENSE├── src│   ├── CMakeLists.txt│   ├── hello-world.cpp│   ├── Message.cpp│   └── Message.hpp└── tests    ├── CMakeLists.txt    └── use_target        ├── CMakeLists.txt        └── use_message.cpp

Since the emphasis in this recipe will be on effective usage of CPack, we will not comment on the source code itself. We will only add packaging directives in CMakeCPack.cmake, which we will discuss in a moment. In addition, we have ...