I'm having problems convincing cmake/cpack to generate a debian package that contains a single executable quine stored in a specific folder named /absolute/path.
According to https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.0/cmake.html#command:install I should be able to use an absolute path:
DESTINATION arguments specify the directory on disk to which a file
will be installed. If a full path (with a leading slash or drive
letter) is given it is used directly. If a relative path is given it
is interpreted relative to the value of CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.
Here is my C file quine.c:
char*s="char*s=%c%s%c;main(){printf(s,34,s,34);}";main(){printf(s,34,s,34);}
and my CMakeLists.txt file:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
project(quine)
file(GLOB SOURCES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/*.c)
add_executable(quine ${SOURCES})
set(CPACK_GENERATOR "DEB")
set(CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_MAINTAINER "Nobody")
install(
TARGETS quine
RUNTIME DESTINATION /absolute/path
)
include(CPack)
In an empty subdirectory called build I invoke the following:
$ cmake ..
$ make package
and the resulting package is only 512 bytes in length, and a:
$ dpkg -c quine-0.1.1-Linux.deb
confirms that the package is empty.
What am I doing wrong?
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For the following CMakeLists.txt file
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15)
project(Testing)
include(CMakePackageConfigHelpers)
configure_package_config_file(FooConfig.cmake.in
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/FooConfig.cmake
INSTALL_DESTINATION lib/Goo/dmake
)
install(FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/FooConfig.cmake
DESTINATION lib/Foo/cmake )
and the FooConfig.cmake.in file
#PACKAGE_INIT#
check_required_components(Foo)
It would finally install FooConfig.cmake to lib/Foo/cmake：
$ cmake ..
$ cmake --build .
$ cmake --install . --prefix ../install/
$ ls -R ../install/
../install/:
lib
../install/lib:
Foo
../install/lib/Foo:
cmake
../install/lib/Foo/cmake:
FooConfig.cmake
It seems that whatever value I set to the INSTALL_DESTINATION option of configure_package_config_file, it won't change FooConfig.cmake's installation directory. But if I comment INSTALL_DESTINATION lib/Goo/dmake, CMake Error prompts
No INSTALL_DESTINATION given to CONFIGURE_PACKAGE_CONFIG_FILE()
Then, what is the use of the INSTALL_DESINATION option? What its value (specifically, the above setting lib/Goo/dmake) actually affects?
The documentation:
The <path> given to INSTALL_DESTINATION must be the destination where the FooConfig.cmake file will be installed to.
I know the right way is INSTALL_DESTINATION lib/Foo/cmake. But as I deliberately set it as lib/Goo/dmake, the FooConfig.cmake file still rests at the desired destination lib/Foo/cmake. So, why this option is designed as a must?
The function configure_package_config_file only generates the file specified as the second argument. This function neither installs the generated file nor affects on its installation. So, its arguments can only affect on the content of the generated file.
If you look into the generated script FooConfig.cmake, then you could find the line like
get_filename_component(PACKAGE_PREFIX_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../../../" ABSOLUTE)
This is how the script calculates installation prefix based on the path to the FooConfig.cmake file.
E.g. when you install the package with prefix /usr/local and your FooConfig.cmake script will be located in the directory /usr/local/lib/Foo/cmake, then the quoted path will be expanded into /usr/local/lib/Foo/cmake/../../../, which corresponds to /usr/local/.
Number of components ../ in the script equals to the number of components in INSTALL_DESTINATION parameter.
Why 'PACKAGE_PREFIX_DIR' is needed
Assume a package installs all public headers into directory include/ (relative to installation prefix), and config script needs to deliver that directory to the user via variable FOO_INCLUDE_DIR.
The most direct way would be to write in the script following:
# FooConfig.cmake.in
...
set(FOO_INCLUDE_DIR #CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX#/include)
so configure_package_config_file would substitute real install prefix instead of #CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX#.
But embedding absolute path into the config file prevents the package to be relocatable. So, once installed, the package could be used only from the installation directory, and cannot be copied elsewhere.
For relocatable package a config file computes all installation paths relative to the path of the config file itself, because it is the only path known to the script when it is called by find_package. It is like an executable can compute paths to the files located near to that executable.
If the script is installed into lib/Foo/cmake/FooConfig.cmake, then relative path to the include directory would be ../../../include, so one could use following assignment in that script:
# FooConfig.cmake.in
...
set(FOO_INCLUDE_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../../../include)
So, when find_package(Foo) will execute this script, it expands the variable CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR to the actual directory with the possibly relocated script.
Operating with relative paths requires much attention from the coder, so CMake allows to automate this task:
# CMakeLists.txt
...
# Path to the include directory in the installation tree
set(INCLUDE_DIR 'include')
configure_package_config_file(FooConfig.cmake.in
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/FooConfig.cmake
INSTALL_DESTINATION lib/Foo/cmake
# Tell CMake to handle variable `INCLUDE_DIR` as a path
# under installation tree.
PATH_VARS INCLUDE_DIR
)
# FooConfig.cmake.in
#PACKAGE_INIT#
# Here we could use `#PACKAGE_INCLUDE_DIR#` as reference
# to variable 'INCLUDE_DIR' set in the CMakeLists.txt.
set_and_check(FOO_INCLUDE_DIR "#PACKAGE_INCLUDE_DIR#")
If you look into the generated file, you will find that #PACKAGE_INCLUDE_DIR#
is expanded into ${PACKAGE_PREFIX_DIR}/include, which uses the variable PACKAGE_PREFIX_DIR.
I've got CMake (3.02) installing to a DESTDIR when I invoke:
$ make -C build DESTDIR=$(pwd)/build/rootfs install
This results in a file layout that I'm happy with: binaries are located in the .../build/rootfs/usr/local/bin directory and the init scripts are in .../build/rootfs/etc/init.d. To accomplish that, I used a mixture of relative and absolute paths in my CMakeLists.txt file:
set(CPACK_SET_DESTDIR ON)
...
INCLUDE(CPack)
...
set(ROOTFS_BIN_DIR bin)
set(ROOTFS_ETC_INITD_DIR /etc/init.d)
...
INSTALL(TARGETS myDaemon DESTINATION ${ROOTFS_BIN_DIR})
INSTALL(PROGRAMS myDaemon.sh RENAME myDaemon DESTINATION ${ROOTFS_ETC_INITD_DIR})
With that, I think 'working', I'm trying to create a simple tarball package which will eventually become a debian package (with pre/post install/remove scripts) but when I invoke:
$ make -C build DESTDIR=$(pwd)/build/rootfs package
I'm getting errors because cpack is attempting to write my init scripts to the system's /etc/init.d directory (instead of $(pwd)/build/rootfs/etc/init.d). If I wanted that, then $sudo !! would solve the problem. The error (replaced full path with ...):
CMake Error at .../build_src/cmdServer/cmake_install.cmake:44 (file):
file INSTALL cannot copy file
".../src/cmdServer/cmdServer.sh" to
"/etc/init.d/cmdServer".
I'm not using a lot of CPACK directives: in my top level CMakeLists.txt file I have:
SET(CPACK_SET_DESTDIR ON)
SET(CPACK_GENERATOR TGZ)
INCLUDE(CPack)
How can I package my init scripts correctly?
I've been referencing:
https://cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2008-April/020833.html
and https://cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2006-November/011890.html
I've seen many linux applications packaged with their binaries in some path like /opt/mypkg/myexecutable and a symlink to it in /usr/bin. I've seen these symlinks in the packaged files.
I want to do the same while packaging my software with cpack, creating deb and rpm packages with CPackDEB and CPackRPM.
Is it possible to create a symlink to an arbitrary, possibly non existent path?
Could I then use INSTALL(FILES "mysymlink" DESTINATION /usr/bin/myapp COMPONENT MyComponent)? (Would there be problems with symlinks being followed when the destination actually exists?)
Could I change the link destination with something like CONFIGURE_FILE()
Or am I just missing a cpack directive that does the job correctly?
Have a look at the following example:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)
project(myls NONE)
execute_process(COMMAND ln -s /opt/myapp/superls myls)
install(FILES ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/myls DESTINATION /usr/bin/myapp COMPONENT MyComponent)
SET(CPACK_PACKAGE_CONTACT dmarquant)
include(CPack)
You can simply create a symlink to a non existing location and as you have written install it with install(FILES ...).
I am trying to use CMake and CPack to build and package a Mac OS X application, but I can't figure out the correct way to include resources.
This is what my CMakeLists.txt looks like:
CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 2.8)
PROJECT(foo)
ADD_EXECUTABLE(foo foo.c foo.txt)
SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(foo PROPERTIES MACOSX_BUNDLE TRUE)
SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(foo PROPERTIES RESOURCE foo.txt)
INSTALL(TARGETS foo DESTINATION ".")
SET(CPACK_GENERATOR TGZ)
INCLUDE(CPack)
However, when I use it to build a package, foo.txt gets included twice: in the Resources directory of the bundle as expected, but also at the root:
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make package
$ tar -xvzf foo-0.1.1-Darwin.tar.gz
x foo-0.1.1-Darwin/foo.app/Contents/Info.plist
x foo-0.1.1-Darwin/foo.app/Contents/MacOS/foo
x foo-0.1.1-Darwin/foo.app/Contents/Resources/foo.txt
x foo-0.1.1-Darwin/foo.txt
What am I doing wrong?
EDIT
For easier reading, here is what the final, working, CMakeLists.txt looks like (as per Josh's answer and my comment on it):
CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 2.8)
PROJECT(foo)
ADD_EXECUTABLE(foo foo.c foo.txt)
SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(foo PROPERTIES MACOSX_BUNDLE TRUE)
SET_SOURCE_FILES_PROPERTIES(foo.txt PROPERTIES MACOSX_PACKAGE_LOCATION Resources)
INSTALL(TARGETS foo DESTINATION ".")
SET(CPACK_GENERATOR TGZ)
INCLUDE(CPack)
Removing the line * PROPERTIES RESOURCE foo.txt) should solve the problem.
Since you have included cpack in your cmake file, the generated TGZ will contain all of the files which would be installed with make install. In this case, you have
SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(foo PROPERTIES MACOSX_BUNDLE TRUE)
which will build foo as an OS X application bundle (doc), and
SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(foo PROPERTIES RESOURCE TRUE)
specifies foo.txt as a resource files (doc). With both of those PROPERTIES set, make install will create two versions of foo.txt. One in the bundle, foo.app/Contents/Resources/foot.txt, and one in the top level directory, foo.txt. Therefore, CPack will also generate those two versions of foo.txt.
Let's say I have a simple hello project with the pseudo-standard directory layout
helloworld/
src/
main.c
say.c
say-helper.c
include/
say.h
say-helper.h
build/
and after running
cd ~/helloworld/build
cmake ..
make
I would expect the following
helloworld/
build/lib/
libsay.a
libsay.so
libsay.so.1.0.0
tmp/obj/
main.o
say.o
build/bin/
hello
and after make install I would expect
/usr/local/lib/
libsay.a
libsay.so
libsay.so.1.0.0
/usr/local/bin/
hello
What would the CMakeLists.txt look like for this setup?
I've been looking around for examples, but the only one I've found that shows how to add a library and an executable didn't work.
Basic commands to describe the project:
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(include)
ADD_LIBRARY(say src/say.c src/say-helper.c)
ADD_EXECUTABLE(hello src/main.c)
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(hello say)
This is for placing the libs and the executable in the build directory, put that in your CMakeLists.txt:
SET (CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/bin)
SET (CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/lib)
SET (CMAKE_ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/lib)
For install you specify
install(TARGETS say hello
RUNTIME DESTINATION bin
LIBRARY DESTINATION lib
ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib)
in your CMakeLists.txt and set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to /usr/local in your configuration.
I'm not sure if you can build static and dynamic libraries simultaneously with the same name, though. And I don't know how to tell CMake to put the obj files in some specific location.