CPack Archive Generator ----------------------- CPack generator for packaging files into an archive, which can have any of the following formats: - 7Z - 7zip - (.7z) - TBZ2 (.tar.bz2) - TGZ (.tar.gz) - TXZ (.tar.xz) - TZ (.tar.Z) - TZST (.tar.zst) - ZIP (.zip) When this generator is called from ``CPackSourceConfig.cmake`` (or through the ``package_source`` target), then the generated archive will contain all files in the project directory, except those specified in :variable:`CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES`. The following is one example of packaging all source files of a project: .. code-block:: cmake set(CPACK_SOURCE_GENERATOR "TGZ") set(CPACK_SOURCE_IGNORE_FILES \\.git/ build/ ".*~$" ) set(CPACK_VERBATIM_VARIABLES YES) include(CPack) When this generator is called from ``CPackConfig.cmake`` (or through the ``package`` target), then the generated archive will contain all files that have been installed via CMake's :command:`install` command (and the deprecated commands :command:`install_files`, :command:`install_programs`, and :command:`install_targets`). Variables specific to CPack Archive generator ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. variable:: CPACK_ARCHIVE_FILE_NAME CPACK_ARCHIVE__FILE_NAME Package file name without extension. The extension is determined from the archive format (see list above) and automatically appended to the file name. The default is ``[-]``, with spaces replaced by '-'. .. variable:: CPACK_ARCHIVE_COMPONENT_INSTALL Enable component packaging. If enabled (ON), then the archive generator creates multiple packages. The default is OFF, which means that a single package containing files of all components is generated. Variables used by CPack Archive generator ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ These variables are used by the Archive generator, but are also available to CPack generators which are essentially archives at their core. These include: - :cpack_gen:`CPack Cygwin Generator` - :cpack_gen:`CPack FreeBSD Generator` .. variable:: CPACK_ARCHIVE_THREADS The number of threads to use when performing the compression. If set to ``0``, the number of available cores on the machine will be used instead. The default is ``1`` which limits compression to a single thread. Note that not all compression modes support threading in all environments. Currently, only the XZ compression may support it. .. note:: Official CMake binaries available on ``cmake.org`` ship with a ``liblzma`` that does not support parallel compression.