CPackComponent

CPackComponent

Build binary and source package installers

Variables concerning CPack Components

The CPackComponent module is the module which handles the component part of CPack. See CPack module for general information about CPack.

For certain kinds of binary installers (including the graphical installers on Mac OS X and Windows), CPack generates installers that allow users to select individual application components to install. The contents of each of the components are identified by the COMPONENT argument of CMake’s INSTALL command. These components can be annotated with user-friendly names and descriptions, inter-component dependencies, etc., and grouped in various ways to customize the resulting installer. See the cpack_add_* commands, described below, for more information about component-specific installations.

Component-specific installation allows