[CMake] simplest possible NSIS package

[Andrea Crotti]

On 02/23/2012 02:32 PM, Andrea Crotti wrote:
> So I'm still struggling to get an actual installer.
> I copied almost the same example from the book:
>
> cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)
> project (Prova)
>
> add_executable(prova a.c)
> install(
>   TARGETS prova RUNTIME DESTINATION bin
>   )
>
> include(CPack)
>
>
> cmake does all its job, the package is created without errors with
> cpack -G NSIS
> or make package
>
> but then windows complain that the file doesn't exist, even if it 
> actually does and it's not empty.
>
> Now I wonder, are there any compulsory variables for NSIS to get this 
> working?
>
> And if yes I even tried to run it with --warn-unitialized and it 
> doesn't say anything, shouldn't it warn
> me if I'm trying to use NSIS and I didn't initialize any of the useful 
> variables?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrea

It appears it's really a problem of NSIS, even trying the a small 
example (directly with makensis) from the website produces an
installer that doesn't work, I'll investigate in that direction then.