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CMake Cookbook
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CMake Cookbook

by Radovan Bast, Roberto Di Remigio
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
606 pages
14h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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Installation directives

Finally, let us consider the installation directives. We need to install an executable, one library, and one header file. Executables and libraries are build targets, so we use the TARGETS option to the install command. Install rules for multiple targets can be set at once: CMake is aware of what kind of targets they are; that is, whether they are executables, shared libraries, or static libraries:

install(  TARGETS    message-shared    hello-world_wDSO

Executables will be installed in RUNTIME DESTINATION, which we set to ${INSTALL_BINDIR}. Shared libraries are installed to LIBRARY DESTINATION, which we set to ${INSTALL_LIBDIR}. Static libraries would be installed to ARCHIVE DESTINATION, which we also set to ${INSTALL_LIBDIR} ...

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ISBN: 9781788470711