CMake support "make uninstall"?

Cmake Problem Overview

I am trying to find some sudo-free solution to enable my users install and unistall my application. Using

set(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX "$ENV{HOME}/opt/${CPACK_PACKAGE_NAME}-${CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION}/")
SET(CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH "$ENV{HOME}/${CPACK_PACKAGE_NAME}-${CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION}/")

I can direct the files to the user's home directory, and

make install

works fine. With reference to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1439950/whats-the-opposite-of-make-install-ie-how-do-you-uninstall-a-library-in-lin I did not find any idea, which is sudo-free and is not complex for a non-system-admin person.

Is anyhow make uninstall supported by CMake?
My uninstall is quite simple: all files go in a subdirectory of the user's home. In principle, removed that new subdirectory could solve the problem. Has make install, with parameters above, any side effect, or I can write in my user's guide that the newly produced subdirectory can be removed as 'uninstall'?

Cmake Solutions

Solution 1 - Cmake

If you want to add an uninstall target you can take a look to the official CMake FAQ at: > https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/community/wikis/FAQ#can-i-do-make-uninstall-with-cmake

If you just want a quick way to uninstall all files, just run:

xargs rm < install_manifest.txt

install_manifest.txt file is created when you run make install.

Solution 2 - Cmake

No there is not. See in the FAQ from CMake wiki:

> By default, CMake does not provide the "make uninstall" target, so you > cannot do this. We do not want "make uninstall" to remove useful files > from the system. > >If you want an "uninstall" target in your project, > then nobody prevents you from providing one. You need to delete the > files listed in install_manifest.txt file. [followed by some example code]

Solution 3 - Cmake

Remove files and folders (empty only) added by make install from a cmake project:

cat install_manifest.txt | sudo xargs rm
cat install_manifest.txt | xargs -L1 dirname | sudo xargs rmdir -p

The second command will print a bunch of errors because it recursively deletes folders until it finds one that is not empty. I like seeing those errors to know which folders are left. If you want to hide these errors you can add --ignore-fail-on-non-empty to rmdir.

Solution 4 - Cmake

From the source folder:

open install_manifest.txt (created by make install)
remove all the directories/files listed
remove any remaining files you missed:

xargs rm < install_manifest.txt
remove any hidden directories/files:

$rm -rf ~/.packagename

Remove the source folder.

Solution 5 - Cmake

# make uninstall
add_custom_target("uninstall" COMMENT "Uninstall installed files")
add_custom_command(
    TARGET "uninstall"
    POST_BUILD
    COMMENT "Uninstall files with install_manifest.txt"
    COMMAND xargs rm -vf < install_manifest.txt || echo Nothing in
            install_manifest.txt to be uninstalled!
)

Add this to CMakeLists.txt, then an uninstall target is made by hand.

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Question	katang	View Question on Stackoverflow
Solution 1 - Cmake	Emilio González Montaña	View Answer on Stackoverflow
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