Installing and packaging

We're circling back to the subject discussed in the previous chapter and starting with a quick overview of the files needed to set up installation and packaging:

Figure 12.6 – Files configuring installation and packaging

Only files are needed here – most of the work is already done in previous sections. As you may remember, the top-level listfile includes a CMake module that's going to handle this process:

chapter-12/01-full-project/CMakeLists.txt (fragment)

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include(Install)

We're interested in installing two items:

• The Calc library artifacts: the static library, the shared library, and header files along with their target export file
• The Calc console executable

The package definition config-file will only introduce library targets, as potential consuming projects won't depend on the executable.

After configuring the installation steps, we'll move on to the CPack...