AAX Plugin install permissions/issue

CMake
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We are currently building the AAX version of OurCoolPlugin within a VM, and constantly run into this issue:

-- Installing: /Library/Application Support/Avid/Audio/Plug-Ins/OurCoolPlugin.aaxplugin
CMake Error at /Users/builder/Desktop/Internal/OurCoolPlugin/JUCE/extras/Build/CMake/copyDir.cmake:36 (file):
  file INSTALL cannot make directory "/Library/Application
  Support/Avid/Audio/Plug-Ins/OurCoolPlugin.aaxplugin": Permission denied.

Rather than give our ‘builder’ user root permissions, I’d rather like to avoid the problem altogether, and tried to do this:

# Find the AAX SDK path if it hasn't already been set by a builder script
if (DEFINED ENV{AAX_SDK_PATH})
    message(STATUS "AAX_SDK_PATH set to: $ENV{AAX_SDK_PATH}")
    #juce_set_aax_sdk_path($ENV{AAX_SDK_PATH})
    set(AAX_PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR "$ENV{OCP_THIS_BUILD_DIR}/Library/Application Support/Avid/Audio/Plug-Ins")
    set(FORMATS Standalone AU VST3 AUv3 AAX)
else()
    message(STATUS "AAX_SDK_PATH not set. Current hostname: ${HOSTNAME}")
    # Valid choices: AAX Unity VST VST3 AU AUv3 Standalone
    set(FORMATS Standalone AU VST3 AUv3)
endif()

… passing in “OCP_THIS_BUILD_DIR” as the “Build Directory” (with timestamp) for the build we are running - however this does not seem to work.

Is there a best-practice for getting around this issue, or am I going to be forced to set up our ‘builder’ user with root permissions, and run the scripts with sudo, as a solution?

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I remember solving the same problem at some point. This used to work:

set_directory_properties( PROPERTIES JUCE_AAX_COPY_DIR  "$ENV{HOME}/Library/Application Support/Avid/Audio/Plug-Ins" )

Or you could set the AAX_COPY_DIR property per target.

Nowadays I just don’t enable the copy step at all when running release builds. That’s cleaner as it doesn’t make sense to copy results on the build machine anyway.

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Nice to know someone else sorted this out … thanks for the tip, I’ll try it out.