[CMake] CMake + NSIS on windows

[Andrea Crotti]

On 01/25/2012 02:48 PM, Andrea Crotti wrote:
> Now however CMake complains that it can't fin nmake, which from my
> search it's something it's this:
> http://superuser.com/questions/146577/where-do-i-find-nmake-for-windows-7
>
> so cmake . generated by default the nmake files, but why cpack would
> need nmake for in the first place if I'm just using NSIS?
>
> Is this really a dependency which should be also installed?

 From reading here
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:Packaging_With_CPack
I think is exactly what I would like to do, using cpack directly without
cmake and nmake.

But it also doesn't work, in the sense that it still needs NMake.
After I downloaded everything (SDK and visual studio express) it finally
worked, but I really don't see why cpack should need to make anything..
Is that really necessary / unavoidable?

Because that would mean that it's probably not a good idea, since
NSIS would do the same as NSIS + CMake + SDK + visual studio expres..