Added versioned install option to cmake install command

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -9,14 +9,23 @@ project(${PROJECT_NAME} VERSION 0.0.1)
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 20)
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED True)
 
-option(BUILD_TESTS "Build tests" ON)
+option(BUILD_TESTS "Build tests" OFF)
+option(VERSIONED_INSTALL "Install with version postfix and create symlinks" OFF)
 
 # This disables the default behavior of adding all targets to the CTest dashboard, when adding libraries with the fetchcontent module
 set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY CTEST_TARGETS_ADDED 1)
 
 # Add all source files to file list
 file(GLOB_RECURSE SOURCES CONFIGURE_DEPENDS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/source/*.cpp ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/source/*.h)
 
+if (VERSIONED_INSTALL)
+    set(INSTALL_POSTFIX "-${PROJECT_VERSION}")
+else()
+    set(INSTALL_POSTFIX "")
+endif()
+
+message(STATUS "Install postfix: ${INSTALL_POSTFIX}")
+
 # Add excecutables
 add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME} ${SOURCES})
 
@@ -70,6 +79,9 @@ endif()
 # Link all of our libs together
 target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC jack lo yaml-cpp::yaml-cpp)
 
+# Set the output name of the executable
+set_target_properties(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME "${PROJECT_NAME}${INSTALL_POSTFIX}")
+
 include(cmake/install.cmake)
 
 # Exclude from all also makes sure that the test libs are not installed

cmake/install.cmake

@@ -7,4 +7,9 @@ message(STATUS "CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is set to ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}")
 install(TARGETS ${PROJECT_NAME}
     # these get default values from GNUInstallDirs
     RUNTIME DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR}
-)
+)
+
+# create symlinks for the binary when versioned installation is enabled
+if (VERSIONED_INSTALL)
+    install(CODE "execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E create_symlink ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR}/${PROJECT_NAME}${INSTALL_POSTFIX} ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR}/${PROJECT_NAME})")
+endif()