Symbolic links CMake

Another way to do it:

INSTALL(CODE "execute_process( \
    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E create_symlink \
    ${target} \
    ${link}   \
    )"
)

This way the symlinking will be done during make install only.

You can create a custom target and use CMake to create symlinks

ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(link_target ALL
                  COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E create_symlink ${target} ${link})

This will only work on systems that support symlinks, see the documentation.

Before CMake v3.14, this did not work on Windows. In v3.13, support for Windows was added.

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