Thanks Eric, This solution should work and Unix is the only place where I need this to happen anyway.
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Eric Noulard <eric.noul...@gmail.com>wrote: > 2012/2/17 Steven Wilson <steven.wesley.wil...@gmail.com>: > > I have a large software system that depends on third party libraries. > The > > CMake system that builds this software uses install() to copy these > > libraries into the appropriate place in the layout. On some systems I > > would like to provide my developers with the option of not copying these > > libraries and instead creating symbolic links to the libraries in the > > software layout. Using symbolic links would save a great deal of disk > > space for developers when they have many different versions(debug, > profile, > > etc...) of the software build system. Is there a way to create > symbolic > > links to files rather than copy files at install time? > > You could certainly achieve that using > install(CODE > or > install(SCRIPT > > and execute_process with cmake -E create_symlink > that said it will only work on unix. > > > > > -- > Erk > Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - > http://www.april.org >
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