cmake - Building bullet3 on Windows 10 - not all libraries installed

Question

I have built bullet3-3.08 on Windows using cmake (commands have been executed from the build folder created in the bullet3-3.08 directory):

cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64 -D "CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=C:/Workspace/MyLibs/bullet3-3.08" ..
cmake --build . --config Release --parallel 8 --target install

I have noticed that the installation folder doesn't contain all built libraries, for example BulletCollision.lib is present the build/lib/Release folder but hasn't been installed in the C:/Workspace/MyLibs/bullet3-3.08/lib Moreover C:/Workspace/MyLibs/bullet3-3.08/include directory doesn't contain all headers, for example btBulletDynamicsCommon.h

How to fix that ? I don't want to copy headers/libs manually.

Answer 1

When building bullet3-3.08 on Windows with Visual Studio project files the libraries are not installed by default.

You need to add -DINSTALL_LIBS=ON to your command line to enable the installation, e.g.

cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=C:/Workspace/MyLibs/bullet3-3.08 -DINSTALL_LIBS=ON ..