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 [email protected]
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
> [email protected]
> SkypeId: bernalkc
>
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