cmake --install fails on Windows

[themightyoarfish]

Issue description

I cannot install libzmq via cmake.exe inside of Git Bash. I build with

 cmake.exe ..                 -DWITH_DOCS=OFF                 -DENABLE_DRAFTS=ON                 -DWITH_PERF_TOOL=OFF                 -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

and then cmake --build ., which works. However:

$ cmake --install .
-- Install configuration: "Release"
-- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/ZeroMQ/lib/pkgconfig/libzmq.pc
CMake Error at cmake_install.cmake:55 (file):
  file INSTALL cannot find
  "C:/Users/themightyoarfish/Downloads/libzmq-master/libzmq-4.3.3/build/bin/Release/libzmq-v142-mt-4_3_3.dll":
  No error.

And indeed the mentioned file does not exist:

$ ls bin
Debug/

so somehow – despite selecting Release build type – only a debug build is created? Not sure if this is the case.

Environment

• libzmq version (commit hash if unreleased): 4.3.3
• OS: Windows 10

Minimal test code / Steps to reproduce the issue

See above.

What's the actual result? (include assertion message & call stack if applicable)

See above.

What's the expected result?

cmake --install . on windows successfully installs to somewhere.

[zipzit]

Are those the right steps? From this reference, the steps to build libzmq are:

Build libzmq via cmake. This does an out of source build and installs the build files

• download and unzip the lib, cd to directory
• mkdir build
• cd build
• cmake ..
• sudo make -j4 install

Not sure I understand the difference between cmake install and make install, I'd be curious to hear what you've tested. I'm getting odd results. (release stuff = total fail, debug stuff looks okay but fails in Visual Studio running code...) I've been testing VCPKG builds as well. Note: zeromq_x64-windows-static stuff works great,

[themightyoarfish]

As in don't have make on the windows system, i use cmake --install as the build system agnostic way of installation. on windows i believe ninja is used, at least by Visual Studio.

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