[CMake] creating start menu items

[Paul Anton Letnes]

This seems to match what I've seen in my so-far light experimentation. What's the fix? Use wix XML patches?

I'm betting my money on the WiX train as this is what we use elsewhere in my organization. Also I can live without the start menu items in the very worst case.

cheers
Paul


> On 13. feb. 2015, at 22.11, Iosif Neitzke <iosif.neitzke+cmake at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As a side note, remember that CPACK_PACKAGE_EXECUTABLES is problematic
> in another way too; it requires listed executables to be installed to
> <PACKAGING_INSTALL_DIR>/bin/.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Nils Gladitz <nilsgladitz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 02/13/2015 07:52 AM, Paul Anton Letnes wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have been unable to come across any documentation on how the WiX CPack
>>> generator can create start menu items. I'll need to create items both
>>> for a few PDFs (documentation) and for an executable or two. Is this
>>> supported, or do I need to write my own XML patch file and give that to
>>> WiX?
>> 
>> 
>> The WIX generator implements the generic CPACK_PACKAGE_EXECUTABLES [1] which
>> like the name suggests is only for executables though.
>> 
>> I was pondering adding another installed file property [2] for the creation
>> of start menu / desktop shortcuts for convenience but for now
>> CPACK_WIX_PATCH_FILE [3] should work for non-executables.
>> 
>> Nils
>> 
>> [1] http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.1/module/CPack.html
>> 
>> [2]
>> http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.1/manual/cmake-properties.7.html#properties-on-installed-files
>> 
>> [3] http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.1/module/CPackWIX.html
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