[Boost-cmake] dll install location on win32

Subject: [Boost-cmake] dll install location on win32
From: Mark B. Allan (Mark.B.Allan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-10 16:32:50

It looks like the cmake-boost install defaults to putting *.dll and 
*.lib files in the same directory (lib). Is there an option to install 
the *.dll files into bin?
CMake supports this with the install "RUNTIME DESTINATION" directive. I 
use a simple macro to set this up, e.g.

macro( install_library TARGET_NAME )
   install(TARGETS ${TARGET_NAME}
           EXPORT ${PROJECT_NAME}
           ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib
           LIBRARY DESTINATION lib
           RUNTIME DESTINATION bin
   )
endmacro( install_library )

The benefit to this is that you don't have to add lib to your PATH when 
you want to run something in bin. I realize that the jam build puts 
everything in lib, but IMHO this is the wrong thing to do on windows.

Thanks,
-Mark
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