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Adding files to ARCHIVE packages only in CPack

Is it possible to add some files only to the ARCHIVE generators with CMake/CPack? Apparently components do that, but I can't figure how to say "only add component X to generator Y". I did something like this:

INSTALL(FILES somefile DESTINATION "." COMPONENT static)

But how to add the static component only to ARCHIVEs and not to other generators like DEB and RPM?

Solution

  • Eventually found this with some help from the CMake list. In your CMakeLists.txt do something like this:

    install(PROGRAMS basic.sh DESTINATION "." COMPONENT basic)
install(PROGRAMS optional.sh DESTINATION "." COMPONENT optional)

set(CPACK_PROJECT_CONFIG_FILE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/CPackOptions.cmake")

    CPackOptions.cmake should handle the ifs. Notice that you must turn on CPACK_*_COMPONENT_INSTALL for any other generator you might want:

    SET(CPACK_ARCHIVE_COMPONENT_INSTALL ON)
SET(CPACK_DEB_COMPONENT_INSTALL ON)
SET(CPACK_COMPONENTS_ALL_IN_ONE_PACKAGE 1)

IF ("${CPACK_GENERATOR}" MATCHES "TGZ")
   SET(CPACK_COMPONENTS_ALL basic optional)
ELSEIF ("${CPACK_GENERATOR}" MATCHES "TBZ2")
   SET(CPACK_COMPONENTS_ALL basic optional)
ELSE()
   SET(CPACK_COMPONENTS_ALL basic)
ENDIF()