I tool a little different approach in my own projects. I end up
"configuring" a shell script that gets run at install time (OS X
Only). Inside that shell script are all the copying to the
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, ensuring destination directories inside the OS X
App bundle are setup (Plugins, libs, Frameworks) and then finally
calling the BundleUtilities to copy all the dependent libraries and
plugins into the App bundle and "fixing" the install_name embedded in
each library so that they point to libraries inside the bundle. For Qt
projects I also make sure a blank qt.conf file and qtmenu.nib file are
properly copied into the bundle.
There are some "dark" issues when it comes to plugins. The basic
BundleUtilities will look for files that end with .dylib (on OS X) and
copy those to the "lib" directory and frameworks into the Framework
directory. The issue for me was when I had plugins with .dylib file
extensions these would always be copied into the wrong directory. I
had to make sure I used a set properties to set the file extension of
my own plugins to .plugin so I had a guaranteed way to tell the
difference between a support library that should go into "lib" and a
plugin that should get copied into Plugins. One form of this can be
found at <http://scm.bluequartz.net/support-libraries/cmp/blobs/master/OSX_Tools/CompleteBundle.cmake.in
>
There may be some Qt specific lines in the file and it is OS X
specific. Also note that you can over-ride some of the BundleUtilities
commands in order to implement variations that suit your own needs.
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Principal Software Engineer [email protected]
BlueQuartz Software Dayton, Ohio
On Nov 17, 2010, at 7:52 AM, David Doria wrote:
Tyler,
You seem to be right in that I should not escape the $, but I DID need
to add "DESTINATION bin". Without it, I got a:
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:23 (INSTALL):
install FILES given no DESTINATION!
This seems to work:
INSTALL(FILES "${VTK_DIR}/bin/libvtkHybrid.a" DESTINATION bin)
The package generated is 2MB, so I'm assuming it worked? How would you
test a package on a machine that DOES have the library installed and
configured?
David,
Thanks for the history. It sounds like an excellent goal (and what I
was looking for when I stumbled across it). Now we just need to ensure
people know how to use it :)
Now that I have a working version of the "manual" way (
INSTALL(FILES... ) ), I would like to convert it to the "automatic"
way (INSTALL(CODE...) )
This is the relevant line from the Qt example:
INSTALL(CODE "
file(GLOB_RECURSE QTPLUGINS
\"\${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${plugin_dest_dir}/plugins/*$
{CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX}\")
include(BundleUtilities)
fixup_bundle(\"${APPS}\" \"\${QTPLUGINS}\" \"${DIRS}\")
" COMPONENT Runtime)
Can someone decode this? The reason I thought the Qt example was not
very general is that this line looks like it is very Qt specific
(dealing with plugins and what not).
Can you explain the syntax "line by line":
INSTALL(CODE - start the automatic library search
file(GLOB_RECURSE - look for files
QTPLUGINS - what is this?
\"\${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${plugin_dest_dir}/plugins/*$
{CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX}\")
- ???
include(BundleUtilities) - Just copy and paste this every time?
fixup_bundle(\"${APPS}\" \"\${QTPLUGINS}\" \"${DIRS}\") - what is
fixup_bundle? What is the APPS and DIRS variable?
" COMPONENT Runtime) - What is the COMPONENT? What else would it be
but Runtime?
Sorry for the lengthy email, but I think we should try to get this
ironed out so I can make some more examples :)
Thanks,
David
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