On Thursday 23 September 2010, Eric Noulard wrote: > 2010/9/23 edA-qa mort-ora-y <eda...@disemia.com>: > > On 09/23/2010 12:12 AM, Ryan Pavlik wrote: > >>> If anybody has a good resource, or can recommend some best practices, > >>> that would be great. > >> > >> Use CMake and CPack? See the wiki, and elsewhere on the internet. > > > > Yes, I am of course using CMake. My question is more along of the lines > > of how to best achieve the requirements of packaging. The "install" > > command on its own is pretty weak and locating and copying files > > requires all sorts of additional work (at least when it comes to > > finding/copying libraries, data files are fine). > > > > So I was wondering if there are some good, easy, or common ways to > > achieve packaging library dependencies. > > Some CMake tries to help for that task. > > InstallRequiredSystemLibraries.cmake --> Windows only > GetPrerequisite.cmake > BundleUtilities.cmake > > I think BundleUtilities try to achieve what you want, as far as I know > it was designed for MacOS but has been updated to work on > Linux and Windows as well. > > GetPrerequisite is a basic helper which helps you find prerequisite > for an executable or library. > > If you dig the mailing list about it you should find more valuable > informations about those.
..and it would be great if while doing that you could also put something in the wiki: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/CMake#CPack :-) Alex _______________________________________________ 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