[CMake] Packaging issues

[Konstantin Podsvirov]

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)