More importantly symlinks are restricted to administrator accounts only in Windows Vista/7/8. Windows 10 with Developer Mode activated allows none-elevated accounts to create symlinks.
This is important as CMake does ship non-installer windows binaries. On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Craig Scott <craig.sc...@crascit.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Clément Gregoire <lec...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Wouldn't it be possible to move it to a subfolder with the DLLs and put a >> link next to cmake and ccmake? Executables look for DLLs in their directory >> and it wouldn't pollute the PATH > > > Symlinks are available on NTFS filesystems from Vista onwards. If the user > installed CMake on, say, a FAT filesystem instead or on an old XP box (CMake > appears to still try to support that), then symlinks wouldn't be available > from what I can make out. One could potentially use a forwarding script of > some kind though to achieve essentially the same thing. > > >> I personally like to be able to launch it through the command line, it is >> faster than looking for it and then browse for the folder. >> >> >> Le lun. 14 août 2017 à 11:48, Craig Scott <craig.sc...@crascit.com> a >> écrit : >>> >>> This is a common problem, not just with CMake. I'm wondering if there's >>> any real need for cmake-gui to be on the PATH at all, since it will usually >>> be invoked by a desktop or menu icon. At the moment though, it is in the >>> same directory as the cmake and ccmake executables which have a much >>> stronger case for being on the PATH. There's a reasonable argument that >>> cmake-gui should be in a different directory, then it wouldn't be an issue >>> if shared Qt libs were used rather than static. I'll bring this up on the >>> developer mailing list and see what discussions yield. >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Christian Ehrlicher >>> <ch.ehrlic...@gmx.de> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I recently upgraded from cmake 3.3 to 3.9 on windows and got some >>>> problems during my build because it looks like the pre-compile binaries for >>>> windows are now shipping Qt5 - dlls instead static compile libs (since 3.5 >>>> afaics). >>>> The problem is, that I had the path to cmake *before* the path to my own >>>> Qt5 libaries. So during the build / run of my application, the wrong >>>> libraries were loaded and I got a symbol lookup error. >>>> Would it be possible to use the static Qt5 libs instead or maybe prefix >>>> the Qt5 libs shipped with cmake-gui somehow? >>>> >>>> Thx, >>>> Christian >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> 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. 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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://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake > > > > > -- > Craig Scott > Melbourne, Australia > https://crascit.com > > -- > > 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. 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