Right, as mentionned by Craig Scott, a script might do the trick ? Just a 
cmake-gui.bat that calls cmake-gui.exe should work.

De : Robert Maynard
Envoyé le :lundi 14 août 2017 15:24
À : Craig Scott
Cc : Clément Gregoire; CMake
Objet :Re: [CMake] cmake-gui on windows and qt5 dlls

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
>>>>
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