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firefly2442

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Create Launchers for Examples Using CMake
« on: October 25, 2012, 04:55:53 am »
I'm not sure if this is possible but it would be great if there was a checkbox option in CMake to create launchers for the examples based on the platform that is being used.  For example, under Windows it would create a batch file that sets the appropriate PATH for the libraries that are needed.  Under Linux, maybe it's a BASH script that appends the LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the library.

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Re: Create Launchers for Examples Using CMake
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2012, 08:06:21 am »
Why?
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AW: Re: Create Launchers for Examples Using CMake
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2012, 08:45:49 am »
Quote from: Laurent on October 25, 2012, 08:06:21 am
Why?
I guess so you could just execute the examples without having to copy the dlls.
This doesn't really make that much sense, specially if you compile statically...
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Re: Create Launchers for Examples Using CMake
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2012, 09:02:26 am »
And people will have to copy the DLLs for their own project anyway, so it would be confusing to provide a way to skip this step for the precompiled examples.
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Re: Create Launchers for Examples Using CMake
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2012, 11:43:25 am »
Why don't you put the Sfml-directory/lib in your PATH variable if you don't want to copy the dlls for every example?
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Re: Create Launchers for Examples Using CMake
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2012, 11:52:35 am »
Quote from: Foaly on October 25, 2012, 11:43:25 am
Why don't you put the Sfml-directory/lib in your PATH variable if you don't want to copy the dlls for every example?
If you install SFML (make install/build the INSTALL project) you'd only need to copy the DLLs once for all examples. ;)
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Re: Create Launchers for Examples Using CMake
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2012, 04:10:41 pm »
Yeah, I guess compiling statically makes this pointless.  I would rather not put the /lib/ path into my PATH variable because that doesn't seem like a good solution long term.  See here:

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Admin/ld-lib-path.html

I found the static compile checkbox in CMake and used that (awesome) so everything seems to work.  Cheers. :)
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