In this section, we'll describe how to use CPack, the packaging tool that comes with CMake.
CPack allows you to easily create packages in various formats, ranging from ZIP and TGZ archives through to DEB and RPM packages, and even installation wizards such as NSIS or a few OS X-specific ones. Once you have your installation logic in place, it's not hard to integrate the tool. Let's show how to use CPack to package our project.
First, we need to specify variables that CPack will use when creating the packages:
set(CPACK_PACKAGE_VENDOR "Authors")
set(CPACK_PACKAGE_CONTACT "[email protected]")
set(CPACK_PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION_SUMMARY
"Library and app for the Customer microservice")
We need to give some information by hand, but some variables can be filled based on our project version specified when we defined our project. There are many more CPack variables and you can read about all of them in the CPack link in the Further reading...
