CMake Error: TARGETS given no LIBRARY DESTINATION for shared library target

Question

When building an opensource project with CMake (in my case, it was the lemon graph library), I got this error when I tried to build shared libaries via -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=1:

TARGETS given no LIBRARY DESTINATION for shared library target

Where does this error come from and how do I fix it?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14990343/cmake-error-targets-given-no-library-destination-for-shared-library-target

Answer 1

In my CMakeLists.txt, my INSTALL command had no LIBRARY parameter.

Changing from this:

INSTALL(
  TARGETS lemon
  ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib
  COMPONENT library
)

to this:

INSTALL(
  TARGETS lemon
  ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib
  LIBRARY DESTINATION lib  # <-- Add this line
  COMPONENT library
)

fixed my problem.