[Boost-users] CPack, CMake and Boost's shared libraries

Subject: [Boost-users] CPack, CMake and Boost's shared libraries
From: r_at_[hidden]
Date: 2016-06-25 17:11:54

What is the canonical cross-platform way to package boost shared 
libraries with CPack (and/or CMake)?

On Windows, DLLs can be copied to the executable's folder and it will 
"just work".
On OS X, one can use install_name_tool to set up a so-called rpath 
pointing to a relative location where the libraries reside, relative to 
the executable.
On Ubuntu, one can similarly use ldd for setting up the correct 
pointers to where the libraries will reside relative to the executable.

The question is then: is there some documentation on how to ship boost 
libraries along with your executable, in a cross-platform and canonical 
way, with CPack?

Here's a question on stack overflow [1] that addresses the same 
problem, however the proposed solution of using

     set(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "-Wl,-rpath='$ORIGIN'")

in CMake does not seem cross-platform to me (MSVC won't recognize the 
command).

Regards,

Raoul

[1]: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26142948/packaging-c-program-using-boost-libraries-with-cmake-cpack