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diff --git a/Help/guide/tutorial/MultiPackage/directions.txt b/Help/guide/tutorial/MultiPackage/directions.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c3102bb --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/guide/tutorial/MultiPackage/directions.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +# Packaging Debug and Release # + +By default CMake is model is that a build directory only contains a single +configuration, be it Debug, Release, MinSizeRel, or RelWithDebInfo. + +But it is possible to setup CPack to bundle multiple build directories at the same +time to build a package that contains multiple configurations of the same project. + +First we need to ahead and construct a directory called 'multi_config' this +will contain all the builds that we want to package together. + +Second create a 'debug' and 'release' directory underneath 'multi_config'. At +the end you should have a layout that looks like: + +─ multi_config + ├── debug + └── release + +Now we need to setup debug and release builds, which would roughly entail +the following: + + cd debug + cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ../../MultiPackage/ + cmake --build . + cd ../release + cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../../MultiPackage/ + cmake --build . + cd .. + + +Now that both the debug and release builds are complete we can now use +the custom MultiCPackConfig to package both builds into a single release. + + cpack --config ../../MultiPackage/MultiCPackConfig.cmake |