2012/2/17 Steven Wilson <steven.wesley.wil...@gmail.com>: > I have a large software system that depends on third party libraries. The > CMake system that builds this software uses install() to copy these > libraries into the appropriate place in the layout. On some systems I > would like to provide my developers with the option of not copying these > libraries and instead creating symbolic links to the libraries in the > software layout. Using symbolic links would save a great deal of disk > space for developers when they have many different versions(debug, profile, > etc...) of the software build system. Is there a way to create symbolic > links to files rather than copy files at install time?
You could certainly achieve that using install(CODE or install(SCRIPT and execute_process with cmake -E create_symlink that said it will only work on unix. -- Erk Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
