Our Windows installer provides an interactive dialog to choose whether
the PATH should be modified. It may also be specified on the `msiexec`
command-line as an `ADD_CMAKE_TO_PATH={0,1}` property. Save the choice
persistently in the Windows Registry and use the same choice by default
in future installations.
Issue: #21465
The note regarding commands superseded by install() somehow wound
up nested under the install(EXPORT) signature, when it has nothing
to do with install(EXPORT). Move it to the top level, immediately
before the Examples section.
Add explicit support for passing a `ADD_CMAKE_TO_PATH={0,1}` property to
`msiexec` command-line installations to control the checkbox. Also
preserve compatibility with the old `ADD_CMAKE_TO_PATH={None,System}`
property, which previously controlled the radio button group, by mapping
the values to the checkbox.
Remove the "Add CMake to the system PATH for the current user" option.
It actually added CMake to the installing user's PATH, not the system
PATH, even though CMake is installed to a system location.
Also revise the wording of the desktop shortcut checkbox to match
the style of the PATH checkbox wording.
Issue: #21465
5d33f41e23 ExternalProject: reword `LIST_SEPARATOR` to indicate what it *does*
611ffce98c ExternalProject: add an example of `LIST_SEPARATOR` usage
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !9376
5d33f41e23 ExternalProject: reword `LIST_SEPARATOR` to indicate what it *does*
611ffce98c ExternalProject: add an example of `LIST_SEPARATOR` usage
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !9376
Also remove the (IMO) confusing suggestion to have ` ` as a separator as
it interferes with things like spaces in argument values (e.g., paths)
or generated arguments such as `-GUnix Makefiles`. The new example is
likely more common usage of the facility.
6ba2bbc0f3 Help: Restructure and improve LINKER_TYPE docs
c39bc6e412 Help: CMAKE_<LANG>_USING_LINKER_<TYPE> can be a list of flags
1c7ccefd83 Help: Add custom linker example for CMAKE_<LANG>_USING_LINKER_<TYPE>
aecea7b28b Help: Grammar, typos and wording improvements for linker variables
5b21897c6e Help: Remove stray formatting for try_compile() LINKER_LANGUAGE keyword
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !9362
6ba2bbc0f3 Help: Restructure and improve LINKER_TYPE docs
c39bc6e412 Help: CMAKE_<LANG>_USING_LINKER_<TYPE> can be a list of flags
1c7ccefd83 Help: Add custom linker example for CMAKE_<LANG>_USING_LINKER_<TYPE>
aecea7b28b Help: Grammar, typos and wording improvements for linker variables
5b21897c6e Help: Remove stray formatting for try_compile() LINKER_LANGUAGE keyword
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !9362
Strawberry Perl may be in the `PATH` to provide `perl`, but it also
comes with a `pkg-config` tool that is unrelated to normal MinGW
distributions. Since commit c6efbd78d8 (MSVC: Teach find_library to
consider the 'libfoo.a' naming convention, 2024-01-19, v3.29.0-rc1~91^2)
we need to avoid searching Strawberry Perl's `.../c/lib` directory, so
do not let its `pkg-config` point us there.
Fixes: #25820
Issue: #23975
Brad King