[CMake] CMake, Cpack and NSIS woes.

Andrew Maclean andrew.amaclean at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 18:46:28 EDT 2009 

Thankyou very much for these comments. Everything works!
I really appreciate all the help I have had from you and Bill!

Regards
   Andrew


On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:56 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> I reproduced this. In the CPackConfig.cmake that ends up in the binary tree,
> the following contents are found:
>
> SET(CPACK_NSIS_DISPLAY_NAME "MyStuff\CMakeTest 1.1")
> SET(CPACK_NSIS_PACKAGE_NAME "MyStuff\CMakeTest 1.1")
> SET(CPACK_PACKAGE_INSTALL_DIRECTORY "MyStuff\\CMakeTest 1.1")
>
> The display name and package name values are not properly escaped... they
> come from the default value for CPACK_PACKAGE_INSTALL_DIRECTORY, but that
> cannot contain backslashes because then variables go through multiple levels
> of escaping. So....
>
> my recommendation is to leave CPACK_PACKAGE_INSTALL_DIRECTORY at its default
> value and not put any backslashes in it. Then change it inside your
> CPackOptions.cmake.in file along with the NSIS variables you are already
> setting.
>
> If I comment out line 23 of CMakeFiles/CPack.cmake, then the NSIS package
> builds successfully. Then you can tweak from there (I hope!) to get your
> desired settings.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> David
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Andrew Maclean <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> CPack woes continued!
>>
>> I implemented it the way you recommended to avoid \\\\ hell.
>> You can unzip the attachment and try it out.
>>
>> ... And it almost works.
>> I can install/uninstall into C:\Program Files\MyStuff\CMakeTest 1.1
>> I can create an NSIS package that installs/uninstalls into C:\Program
>> Files\MyStuff\CMakeTest 1.1 and sets the Start Menu to
>> MyStuff\CMakeTest 1.1.
>>
>> But it is not quite correct ...
>>
>> When I look at CpackConfig.cmake,
>> SET(CPACK_NSIS_DISPLAY_NAME "MyStuff\CMakeTest 1.1")
>> SET(CPACK_NSIS_PACKAGE_NAME "MyStuff\CMakeTest 1.1")
>> Are set to the same value even though in CPackOptions.cmake.in
>>  set(CPACK_NSIS_DISPLAY_NAME "CMakeTest
>> @CMakeTest_VERSION_MAJOR at .@CMakeTest_VERSION_MINOR@ some sort of
>> program.")
>>  set(CPACK_NSIS_PACKAGE_NAME "@MY_INSTALL_DIRECTORY@\\CMakeTest
>> @CMakeTest_VERSION_MAJOR at .@CMakeTest_VERSION_MINOR@")
>>
>> Manually changing CPACK_NSIS_DISPLAY_NAME  and CPACK_NSIS_PACKAGE_NAME
>>  has no effect.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Also
>> CMake Warning (dev) at
>> C:/Users/amaclean/Code/Projects/CPP/CMakeTest/build/CPackConfig.cmake:54
>> (SET):
>> 3>  Syntax error in cmake code at
>> 3>
>>  C:/Users/amaclean/Code/Projects/CPP/CMakeTest/build/CPackConfig.cmake:54
>> 3>  when parsing string
>> 3>    MyStuff\CMakeTest 1.1
>> 3>  Invalid escape sequence \C
>> 3>  Policy CMP0010 is not set: Bad variable reference syntax is an error.
>>  Run
>> 3>  "cmake --help-policy CMP0010" for policy details.  Use the
>> cmake_policy
>> 3>  command to set the policy and suppress this warning.
>> 3>This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.
>> 3>CPack: Create package using NSIS
>>
>> This should not happen as "MyStuff\CMakeTest 1.1" is a valid
>> subdirectory name in windows.
>> Additionally setting
>> cmake_policy(SET CMP0010 OLD)
>> in the top-level CMake file has no effect. The same message as above
>> occurs whether old or new is set.
>>
>>
>> I am using CMake 2.9.20091009
>> I am also making sure to delete the whole build directory each time.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>   Andrew
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Andrew Maclean
>> <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thankyou very much for this hint. I will try it out.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >   Andrew
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Andrew Maclean wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> The only way that I can get this to work is to do this:
>> >>>
>> >>>  string(REPLACE "/" "\\\\" NATIVE_CMAKE_INSTALL_PATH
>> >>> ${INSTALL_DIRECTORY})
>> >>>  set(CPACK_PACKAGE_INSTALL_DIRECTORY ${NATIVE_CMAKE_INSTALL_PATH}
>> >>> CACHE INTERNAL "")
>> >>
>> >> So, to avoid \\\\\\ hell with CPack, you can do what we do in CMake:
>> >>
>> >> We configure the CPackOptions into a file:
>> >>
>> >>  CONFIGURE_FILE("${CMake_SOURCE_DIR}/CMakeCPackOptions.cmake.in"
>> >>    "${CMake_BINARY_DIR}/CMakeCPackOptions.cmake" @ONLY)
>> >>  SET(CPACK_PROJECT_CONFIG_FILE
>> >> "${CMake_BINARY_DIR}/CMakeCPackOptions.cmake")
>> >> # then set this CPack variable before including CPack
>> >>  SET(CPACK_PROJECT_CONFIG_FILE
>> >> "${CMake_BINARY_DIR}/CMakeCPackOptions.cmake")
>> >>
>> >> The problem with CPack is that the variables get run through the CMake
>> >> parser too many times.   By using the CPACK_PROJECT_CONFIG_FILE, that
>> >> file
>> >> gets included at CPack time and only has one CMake parse on the
>> >> variables
>> >> inside it.
>> >>
>> >> I will look at the DESTDIR issue with NSIS...
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -Bill
>> >>
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