Can you use "Find_File()" to get the path to the file. Then use the install(FILES ... ) command to place the file in your app bundle. Not tried any of that but it might work. ___________________________________________________________ Mike Jackson www.bluequartz.net Principal Software Engineer mike.jack...@bluequartz.net BlueQuartz Software Dayton, Ohio
On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:13 PM, KC Jones wrote: > I'm building an app on Mac, Linux, and Win. > > My application requires that a helper application, built outside of my > project, be installed along with it. On Linux and Win, its sufficient to > copy the helper app to the same directory as my app. On Mac, it needs to be > copied into the bundle in the same location as my runtime, in the > Contents/Macos/ bundle directory. > > I can't get the helper app to be packaged correctly on Mac. I've tried two > approaches that have come close but failed. > > First I tried adding the helper as a target, then using install(TARGETS...): > ---------------------------------------- > ADD_EXECUTABLE(myapp MACOSX_BUNDLE [...]) > > SET(helperpath [...]) > SET(IMPORTED_LOCATION ${helperpath}) > ADD_EXECUTABLE(myhelper IMPORTED) > > INSTALL(TARGETS myapp > BUNDLE DESTINATION . > RUNTIME DESTINATION bin > ) > > INSTALL(TARGETS myhelper > BUNDLE DESTINATION . > RUNTIME DESTINATION bin > ) > ---------------------------------------- > > This fails in cmake with a message: "install TARGETS given target "myhelper" > which does not exist in this directory." > > If I alter the INSTALL with a fully qualified path to myhelper I get the > same message, with the fully qualified myhelper path. > > Next, I tried using INSTALL(PROGRAMS...) with something like: > ---------------------------------------- > ADD_EXECUTABLE(myapp MACOSX_BUNDLE [...]) > > SET(helperpath [...]) > > INSTALL(TARGETS myapp > BUNDLE DESTINATION . > RUNTIME DESTINATION bin > ) > > INSTALL(PROGRAMS ${helperpath}/myhelper > DESTINATION . > ) > ---------------------------------------- > > But this form PROGRAMS does not support the kind-of qualifiers (BUNDLE, > RUNTIME), so helperapp gets copied next to the bundle on Mac, not into it > where it needs to be. > > What am I doing wrong? > > KC Jones > kc.jo...@skype.net > SkypeId: bernalkc > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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