[CMake] smarter shortcuts with NSIS

[Andrea Crotti]

On 02/28/2012 05:53 PM, Eric Noulard wrote:
> 2012/2/28 Andrea Crotti<andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com>:
>> On 02/28/2012 03:42 PM, Eric Noulard wrote:
>>>
> Yes more or less beside the fact is CPack is doing more work than that:
>    1) CPack handles CPack-private install location for you
>        (including the installation of the component selected to be put
> in the installer
>         taken from CPACK_COMPONENTS_ALL)
>
>    2) It prepares componentization of the installer.
>       (including possible COMPONENT dependencies, display name etc...
>
>    3) Finally if you use configure_file + add_custom_command you won't get
>       all the CPACK_xxx vars CPack has :-( Because some of them my be computed
>       dynamically by CPack which then does the configure_file in this context.
>
> I forgot to mention that "NSIS.template.in" is including an auxiliary file:
> "NSIS.InstallOptions.ini.in" which is configured as well.
>
> All this is doable by hand but may not be as easy as it seems in the
> general case.
>

Thanks for the great explanation, now it's clear..
Just one thing, how do I make sure that it's actually using my own template
(apart from running the produced installer)?