Thanks everybody for the answers. I finally got it working more or less to my satisfaction by writing it manually.
Mike, I grabbed some of your install stuff. Thanks for that. J Decker, thanks for reminding me about CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR. I knew about it, but it's easy to forget. (That's why I didn't want to have to write this...too much detail work) Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin: The launcher stuff I've never heard of before. I'm going to have to look at that in more detail. Thanks. Klaim - Joël Lamotte, I pretty much agree with all the stuff you listed. And I agree the "install" step doesn't make a lot of sense, particularly when you need to launch/run via the Visual Studio debugger. Unfortunately, I can't use Python, so I had to write it in CMake. I agree the installer is useful for building a package, but I see these two things as different. Additionally, the installer stuff is becoming increasingly dated as everything is moving towards iOS-like app stores that have very different packaging semantics. I'm building a fairly elaborate system using CMake targeting developers, not end consumers of apps. However, these are not traditional native code developers and thus I'm trying to make the CMake user experience much friendlier. I think I should do a post-mortem once I'm done because a lot of areas like this I think can be improved. Thanks, Eric -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake