[CMake] cpack generators for Windows

[Eric Noulard]

2012/11/5 Bogdan Cristea <cristeab at gmail.com>:
>
> On Monday 05 November 2012 13:57:04 you wrote:
>> There seems to be relatively recent commit in the repository though:
>> http://nsis.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nsis/NSIS/trunk/
>
> The latest release is 2.46, December 2009. I have not tried yet the version
> from trunk, but I have noticed in Win8 some issues and also the lack of 64 bit
> version.

There was another CPack bug report related to 64 bits NSIS:
http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=13203

see:
https://bitbucket.org/dgolub/nsis64

>> there is some evolution there as well:
>> http://code.google.com/p/unsis/
>
> This one seems to be the unicode version of nsis.

I thought it could handle "simple" utf-8 as well.

>> >  are there any plans
>> >
>> > to suppport new installer systems on Windows (e.g. the ones provided by
>> > Visual Studio) ?
>>
>> What is "the ones provided by Visual Studio" ?
>
> Visual Studio 2010 has several projects allowing to create installers, given
> the fact that cmake supports VS2010, I was a little surprised to see that no
> VS install projects can be generated.

I'm not a 'real' Visual Studio user so I cannot comment on this,
Kitware guys and other dev will comment on this I'm sure.

Join us for the IRC meeting tonight  (~20:00) you can raise thoses questions
this is on #cmake.


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