[CMake] Packaging issues

Tue Apr 18 13:36:31 EDT 2017

Hello Konstantin,

Thanks again for your excellent support and your continuous development 
of the CPack IFW module.

Cheers, Volker

Am 18.04.2017 um 18:52 schrieb Konstantin Podsvirov:
> The CPackIFW module learned the new hint CPACK_IFW_ROOT variable for finding the QtIFW tool suite installed in a non-standard place.
> 
> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/git-master/module/CPackIFW.html#variable:CPACK_IFW_ROOT
> 
> This feature available in 'master' branch and will be released with CMake 3.9.0.
> 
> 03.04.2017, 19:44, "Konstantin Podsvirov" <konstantin at podsvirov.pro>:
>> Hello Volker!
>>
>> 03.04.2017, 18:50, "Volker Enderlein" <volker.enderlein at ifm-chemnitz.de>:
>>>   Am 03/04/2017 um 12:30 schrieb Volker Enderlein:
>>>>    Hi,
>>>>
>>>>    I'm facing problems using the packaging with CPACK.
>>>>
>>>>    I try to build three different packages, a MSI (via WIX), an IFW, and
>>>>    a ZIP package.
>>>>
>>>>    According to the documentation I set the following variables in my
>>>>    CMakeLists.txt (and a few more which are required):
>>>>
>>>>    set(CPACK_WIX_ROOT "C:/Temp/WiX-3.10/binaries")
>>>>
>>>>    set(QTIFWDIR "${GLOBAL}/Qt/Tools/QtInstallerFramework/2.0/bin")
>>
>> As wrote in the documentation:
>>
>> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/CPackIFW.html#overview
>>
>> QTIFWDIR (like QTDIR) - it's QtIFW installation path (without "/bin").
>>
>> You can set it's as your environment variable and use for all your projects.
>>
>>>>    set(CPACK_GENERATOR "WIX;IFW;ZIP")
>>>>
>>>>    After creating the build dir and running from there
>>>>
>>>>    cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" ..\TestProject
>>>>
>>>>    the files CMakeCache.txt, CPackConfig.cmake, CPackSourceConfig.cmake,
>>>>    and CPackProperties.cmake are generated.
>>>>
>>>>    When running `cpack -C Release` to build all three installers at once,
>>>>    the first one (WIX) is built, but the second one (QtIFW) fails with
>>>>    the messages
>>>>
>>>>    CPack Error: Cannot find QtIFW compiler "binarycreator": likely it is
>>>>    not installed, or not in your PATH
>>>>    CPack Error: Cannot initialize the generator IFW
>>>>
>>>>    I inspected the CMakeCache.txt file but found the following entries
>>>>    properly defined:
>>>>
>>>>    //QtIFW binarycreator command line client
>>>>    CPACK_IFW_BINARYCREATOR_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=N:/Global/Qt/Tools/QtInstallerFramework/2.0/bin/binarycreator.exe
>>>>
>>>>    //QtIFW devtool command line client
>>>>    CPACK_IFW_DEVTOOL_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=N:/Global/Qt/Tools/QtInstallerFramework/2.0/bin/devtool.exe
>>>>
>>>>    //QtIFW installer executable base
>>>>    CPACK_IFW_INSTALLERBASE_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=N:/Global/Qt/Tools/QtInstallerFramework/2.0/bin/installerbase.exe
>>>>
>>>>    //QtIFW repogen command line client
>>>>    CPACK_IFW_REPOGEN_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=N:/Global/Qt/Tools/QtInstallerFramework/2.0/bin/repogen.exe
>>>>
>>>>    //Enable to build 7-Zip source packages
>>>>    CPACK_SOURCE_7Z:BOOL=ON
>>>>
>>>>    //Enable to build ZIP source packages
>>>>    CPACK_SOURCE_ZIP:BOOL=ON
>>>>
>>>>    //Path to a program.
>>>>    CPACK_WIX_CANDLE_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=C:/Temp/WiX-3.10/binaries/candle.exe
>>>>
>>>>    //Path to a program.
>>>>    CPACK_WIX_LIGHT_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=C:/Temp/WiX-3.10/binaries/light.exe
>>>>
>>>>    But when I checked the CPack*Config.cmake files none of the entries
>>>>    above are referenced. After running the `cmake -G "Visual Studio 14
>>>>    2015 Win64" ..\TestProject` a second time everything is fine; the
>>>>    entries are referenced in CPack*Config.cmake files and all three
>>>>    installers can be built.
>>>>
>>>>    So I really get stuck at this point.
>>>>
>>>>    Any ideas what could be the issue and how to avoid it?
>>>>
>>>>    Cheers Volker
>>>
>>>   A close follow up.
>>>
>>>   I finally figured out what didn't work.
>>>
>>>   The setting of the QTIFWDIR variable is not saved to the
>>>   CPack*Config.cmake files. But the CMAKE_WIX_ROOT variable is. Those
>>>   variables seem to be evaluated at runtime by CPack. Therefore the WIX
>>>   build run successfully but the IFW build complained about a the path.
>>>   Adding the variable with its current setting made everything run as
>>>   expected.
>>>
>>>   Cheers Volker
>>>
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>>
>> Good luck with creating your installers!
>>
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>> Regards,
>> Konstantin Podsvirov (CPackIFW author)
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> Konstantin Podsvirov (CPackIFW author)
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