[CMake] smarter shortcuts with NSIS

[David Cole]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Andrea Crotti
<andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)?
>
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If you must, put an intentional error in your own template, and then
verify that you get an error when you run CPack.

It's probably quicker to simply run the installer...