[CMake] cpack, nsis and visual studio 9

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Hi,

We're using Qt4, Visual Studio 9 and cmake 2.6 to create binaries and cpack
with the nsis installer generator to create an installer. cpack/nsis
add thes following to our installer package:

msvcm90.dll
msvcr90.dll
msvcp90.dll

and a manifest file describing these files, all four files to the bin
directory next to our executable. However, installing on another computer
doesn't give us a working installation, it leads to side-by-side errors.

We don't do anything special in our CMakeLists.txt file, so I'm suspecting
that something is buggy either in the cpack nsis generator or in nsis
itself -- has anyone managed to get this to work, or would we be better off
using mingw (or, $DEITY forbid, msi instead of nsis)?

This is the installation section of our CMakeListst.txt file:

#
# Install definition
#
IF (WIN32)
    set(_add_executable_param WIN32)

    INSTALL(TARGETS HyvesDesktop
        DESTINATION bin
    )
    INSTALL(FILES
        "${QT_LIBRARY_DIR}/QtCore${QT_VERSION_MAJOR}.dll"
        "${QT_LIBRARY_DIR}/QtXml${QT_VERSION_MAJOR}.dll"
        "${QT_LIBRARY_DIR}/QtTest${QT_VERSION_MAJOR}.dll"
        "${QT_LIBRARY_DIR}/QtWebKit${QT_VERSION_MAJOR}.dll"
        "${QT_LIBRARY_DIR}/QtGui${QT_VERSION_MAJOR}.dll"
        "${QT_LIBRARY_DIR}/QtNetwork${QT_VERSION_MAJOR}.dll"
        DESTINATION bin
    )
    # for windows, use nsis
    SET(CPACK_GENERATOR NSIS)

ENDIF(WIN32)

IF(WIN32 AND NOT UNIX)
  # There is a bug in NSI that does not handle full unix paths properly. Make
  # sure there is at least one set of four (4) backlasshes.
  SET(CPACK_PACKAGE_ICON "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/windows\\\\InstallIcon.bmp")
  SET(CPACK_NSIS_MUI_ICON "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/windows\\\\InstallIcon.ico")
  SET(CPACK_PACKAGE_INSTALL_DIRECTORY "Hyves Desktop")
  SET(CPACK_PACKAGE_INSTALL_REGISTRY_KEY "Hyves Desktop ${CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION}")
  SET(CPACK_NSIS_INSTALLED_ICON_NAME "bin\\\\HyvesDesktop.exe")
  SET(CPACK_NSIS_DISPLAY_NAME "Hyves Desktop")
  SET(CPACK_NSIS_HELP_LINK "http://www.hyves.nl")
  SET(CPACK_NSIS_URL_INFO_ABOUT "http://www.hyves.nl")
  SET(CPACK_NSIS_CONTACT "support at hyves.nl")
  SET(CPACK_NSIS_MODIFY_PATH ON)
ELSE(WIN32 AND NOT UNIX)
  SET(CPACK_STRIP_FILES "bin/HyvesDesktop")
  SET(CPACK_SOURCE_STRIP_FILES "")
  SET(CPACK_PACKAGE_EXECUTABLES "bin/HyvesDesktop.sh" "startup script")
ENDIF(WIN32 AND NOT UNIX)