“make dist” equivalent in CMake

Question

According to FAQ, CMake doesn\'t create a make dist target and source package can be created using CPack. But CPack just makes a tarball of the source directory

Answer 1

Simon is correct above but does not give a full answer. With git you can generate a compatible tar ball archive with the git archive command.

This example with the version is compatible with make dist of yesteryear.

git archive --format=tar.gz -o my-repo-0.01.tar.gz --prefix=my-repo-0.01/ master

See: https://gist.github.com/simonw/a44af92b4b255981161eacc304417368