[CMake] Determine Installer Build Configuration in Visual Studio

[J Decker]

You probably need to escape it...  so it is kept as
${CMAKE_INSTALL_CONFIG_NAME}

or I think it only ends up working for the initial configuration
chosen when the .sln is made...



On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:22 PM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:
> if(SUPPORTS_PARALLEL_BUILD_TYPE)
>
>  CMAKE_INSTALL_CONFIG_NAME is set to the current configuration name
> (DEbug, release, minsizerel) as chosen in the visual studio
> environment.... so to choose which you build - you choose which you
> build.
>
> It doesn't package multiple configurations at once into a single NSIS,
> but it will package any single configuration.
>
> ?
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Jason Gochanour <jrgochan at lanl.gov> wrote:
>>
>> I've managed to get an NSIS project up and running in VIsual Studio with
>> CPack, but I can't figure out how to determine which configuration type is
>> being built.  Is it possible to write up a CMakeLists that will run through
>> different conditionals based off of the Build Configuration Type selected in
>> Visual Studio?  If a user selects a Debug build I'd like to be able to tell
>> the installer to be built with the Debug libraries instead of the Release.
>>
>> That is what it does. When debug is selected in Visual Studio and you
>> build the PACKAGE project it will build this using debug libs.
>>
>> John
>>
>> Thank you for the response John.  When I first setup CPack it built both
>> Release and Debug, but it didn't package the required DLLs in the
>> installer.  I did some searching and came across the "GetPrerequisites"
>> module.  I had this scan the executables I wanted to package up to create a
>> list of the DLLs I needed.  I had to manually specify the directory however,
>> because I'm not sure how to tell CPack what configuration the user wants to
>> build.  I have a feeling there's a better way around this, but I haven't
>> figure it out yet.
>>
>> Here's the code for one of the executables in the package.
>>
>> ########## INSTALLER ##########
>> IF(INSTALLER_WITH_PROGRAM)
>>     # Add Microsoft DLLs to Installer
>>     INCLUDE(InstallRequiredSystemLibraries)
>>     include(GetPrerequisites)
>>     # Clear Path Variable
>>     set(PATH_TO_FILE "${PATH_TO_FILE}-NOTFOUND")
>>     set(DLL "DLL-NOTFOUND")
>>     # Scan the executable for required DLLs
>>     IF(EXISTS "${EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH}/Release/Program.exe")
>>         GET_PREREQUISITES("${EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH}/Release/Program.exe"
>> DEPENDENCIES 1 1 "" "")
>>         # Scan for each DLL
>>         FOREACH(DEPENDENCY ${DEPENDENCIES})
>>             FOREACH(PATH_TO_FILE ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH})
>>                 find_file(DLL ${DEPENDENCY} "${PATH_TO_FILE}/bin"})
>>             ENDFOREACH(PATH_TO_FILE)
>>
>>             # Add discovered DLL to Installer
>>             install(FILES ${DLL} DESTINATION "bin" )
>>             # Reset DLL Variable
>>             set(DLL "DLL-NOTFOUND")
>>         ENDFOREACH(DEPENDENCY)
>>         # Add Release TS Executable
>>         install(TARGETS Program RUNTIME DESTINATION "bin")
>>     ELSE()
>>         message("Please build ${EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH}/Release/Program.exe
>> and run CMake again.")
>>     ENDIF(EXISTS "${EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH}/Release/Program.exe")
>> ENDIF(INSTALLER_WITH_PROGRAM)
>>
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