Introduction
Explore how to prepare your C++ projects for release by learning installation techniques and packaging with CPack. Understand exporting targets, setting up reusable packages, handling components, and creating installers to distribute your software effectively across different systems.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Our project has been built, tested, and documented. Now, it's finally time to release it to our users. This chapter is mainly about the two last steps we'll need to take to do that: installation and packaging. These are advanced techniques that build on top of everything we've learned so far: managing targets and their dependencies, transient usage requirements, ...