I have a project that builds several executables and also installs them. For the executables the relevant CMake code is:
add_executable(foo "foo.cpp")
add_executable(bar "bar.cpp;qux.cpp")
install(TARGETS foo bar "/usr/bin")
Then I create a .deb package and when it installs I can run foo
and bar
from the command line. I want to do something like this:
add_executable(foo "foo.cpp")
add_executable(bar "bar.cpp;qux.cpp")
add_script(hello "hello.sh")
install(TARGETS foo bar hello)
...so that hello
is executable from the command line. But there isn't actually a CMake command called add_script
. How can I achieve this?
You can use
install(PROGRAMS hello.sh DESTINATION bin RENAME hello)
which will automatically make your script executable. See the docs for install(FILES):
The PROGRAMS form is identical to the FILES form except that the default permissions for the installed file also include OWNER_EXECUTE, GROUP_EXECUTE, and WORLD_EXECUTE. This form is intended to install programs that are not targets, such as shell scripts.
I figured it would be simple, it just turned out to be hard to search for:
install(FILES "hello.sh"
PERMISSIONS OWNER_READ OWNER_WRITE OWNER_EXECUTE GROUP_READ GROUP_EXECUTE WORLD_READ WORLD_EXECUTE
DESTINATION "bin"
RENAME "hello")
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