In previous chapters, we have shown how to configure, build, and test our projects using CMake. Installing projects is an equally important part of the developer's toolbox, and this chapter will demonstrate how to achieve that. The recipes in this chapter cover the install-time operations outlined in the following diagram:
We will walk you through the various steps to be taken in refining the installation of a simple C++ project: from making sure that important files built in your project are copied over to the right directories, to ensuring that other projects depending on your work can detect it using CMake. The four recipes in this chapter will build upon the simple example given in Chapter 1, From a Simple Executable to Libraries, Recipe 3, Building and linking shared and static libraries. There we tried to build a very simple library and link it into an...
