Usage for System Admins about cget HOT 4 CLOSED

Is there a better way of doing this or are there any ideas on how cget could support this in the future?

I have not tested it but this should work(run in the source directory):

cget build --target install

Also, you can specify the install directory with CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX if you don't like the default:

cget build -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local --target install

Also, is setting CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to the cget prefix path the recommended way of using cget with IDEs like CLion?

That is one way, although I am not very familiar with CLion. Cget provides a toolchain file in $CGET_PREFIX/cget/cget.cmake that sets everything needed in cmake. So if you want to run cmake manually you can do:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=$CGET_PREFIX/cget/cget.cmake ..

I don't know if there is a way in CLion to specify a toolchain file or not, but it is a better choice.

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So cget build --target install works, but -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is applied to dependencies when specified (nothing is installed into $CGET_PREFIX).

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but -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is applied to dependencies when specified

Thats right, as defines are applied to all packages including dependencies. It would probably be better not to have the user overwrite this when installing dependencies.

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I merged a fix for this in master, so you can set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX and it won't apply to the dependencies.

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