[CMake] CPack WIX examples

Nils Gladitz nilsgladitz at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 10:40:39 EDT 2014


On 09/23/2014 04:34 PM, jmerkow wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am working on creating an msi installer using cpack with the WIX installer
> (converting from old system).  Im having some trouble finding some good
> resources to do this.
> My project needs to set a number of registry entries. We have a few
> components, and licenses that are installed along with our software. I also
> don't completely understand the example for CPACK_WIX_PATCH_FILE in the
> documentation for adding components, etc.
> I thought it would be helpful to see some of this in action and I was hoping
> someone could point me to an example or two of a project that uses CPack WIX
> generators to get me going. I searched github and around the CMake website,
> and couldn't find any projects that use WIX.

I've got some tiny example projects (actually manual test cases):
	https://github.com/ngladitz/cmake-wix-testsuite

Each sub directory should contain a self contained project usually 
exercising one specific feature of the WIX generator.

Nils



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