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Reputation: 15756

Create a zip archive with Cmake without parent directory?

When I do this:

add_custom_target(
    mystuff
    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E tar "cvf" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/mystuff.zip" --format=zip -- ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/stuff/
)

against a directory organized like this:

stuff/
  file1.txt
  file2.txt
  file3.txt

The resulting zip file contains:

stuff/
  file1.txt
  file2.txt
  file3.txt

but I want: (no parent directory)

  file1.txt
  file2.txt
  file3.txt

If I were doing this outside of cmake, I would use the -C argument (change directory)

How to do this with cmake?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1271

Answers (2)

Nathaniel Niles
Nathaniel Niles

Reputation: 91

You could make the whole thing simpler by removing the nested call to CMake, and calling zip directly:

add_custom_target(
    mystuff
    WORKING_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/stuff"
    COMMAND zip -r "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/mystuff.zip" . 
)

(Note: original didn't work, see comment below) Tell tar to include only the contents of the directory (it will do so recursively, but will leave off the top level).

tar "cvf" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/mystuff.zip" --format=zip \
    -- ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/stuff/*

Upvotes: 0

Eric Backus
Eric Backus

Reputation: 1924

You could change the working directory of the tar command, something like this:

add_custom_target(
    mystuff
    WORKING_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/stuff"
    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E tar "cvf" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/mystuff.zip" --format=zip .
)

Upvotes: 1

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