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newkid
newkid

Reputation: 1468

cmake not moving targets to install directory

My project is structured as follows

ProjDir
| - CMakeLists.txt
| - SubDir1
| | - CMakeLists.txt
| | - src
| | - inc
| - SubDir2
| | - CMakeLists.txt
| | - src
| | - inc

I have targets in each subdirectory and the subdirectories are included in the main CMakeLists.txt as follows.

add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/SubDir1)
add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/SubDir2)

My targets in each subdirectory are installed with the cmake function install. These commands are in the CMakeLists.txt of respective subdirectories and are specified per-target (see this post).

install(TARGETS exe1 DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin CONFIGURATIONS Release)

While I'm able to successfully compile, the install command doesn't move the binaries to ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin but rather finishes after generated the output:

Install the project...
-- Install configuration: ""

How could I resolve this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 370

Answers (1)

Tsyvarev
Tsyvarev

Reputation: 66338

On Linux, default build configuration is empty: neither debug, nor release, etc. It can be easily found from the CMake output:

-- Install configuration: ""

Because your install command is "tagged" with Release configuration, it is not triggered by default (with empty configuration).

Upvotes: 1

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