[CMake] cpack install problem

[Bill Hoffman]

Dean Inglis wrote:
> Hi,
> I originally posted this thread to kwwidgets, but have
> not had much success and perhaps this is a cpack/cmake
> issue Im having.
> 
>  
> I¹m building stand alone applications using VTK, ITK, GDCM, KWWidgets and I
> I'm recently having problems getting my apps to run on windows (XP, Vista 32
> bit) platforms where the installer is generated by cpack (NSIS).  The
> apps/toolkits tcl/tk are all statically built and linked in Release mode
> using MS Visual Studio Express 2005.  I am compiling using the command line
> tools (nmake). I keep getting:
>  
>  The application has failed to start because its side-by-side
>  configuration is incorrect.  Please see the application event log for more
>  detail.
>  
>  Installing vcredist_x86.exe does not help as was
>  suggested on some MS forums.  As an example, the installer installs
>  C:\Program Files\MyApp\bin\myKWWidgetsApp.exe
>  C:\Program Files\MyApp\bin\Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest
>  C:\Program Files\MyApp\bin\ msvcm80.dll
>  C:\Program Files\MyApp\bin\ msvcp80.dll
>  C:\Program Files\MyApp\bin\ msvcr80.dll
> 
> If I run the windows Event Viewer and look at the error:
>  
> "Activation context generation failed for
> "C:Users\Student\Documents\MyApp\bin\myKWWidgetsApp.exe".  Error in manifest
> or policy file "" on line.  A component version required by the application
> conflicts with another component version already active. Conflicting
> components are: Component 1: C:\Windows\WinSxS\manifests\x86
> microsoft.vc80.crt 1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b
> 8.0.50727.3053_none_d08d7bba442a9b36.manifest. Component 2: C:\Program
> Files\ MyApp\bin\Microsoft.VC80.CRT.MANIFEST.
> 
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix or sort this out would be great, thanks
>  

Pull up myKWWidgetsApp.exe in text editor and look for the embeded 
manifest xml.  Just search for xml.  See if it has two version of the 
run time libraries it wants.  If so, you are linking in something that 
uses two different version of the run time.

-Bill