Mark,
I was right, it was pretty easy to add this as a build target (assuming I
got the command syntax right). To build the installer, just issue the
command "nmake nsis_installer" from the build directory command line. This
is setup with dependencies on the doc files being in an indicated directory
and is currently assuming the script is platform\windows\cpack.nsi.
Hopefully the I have the makensis command syntax correct, but that should
be easy to fix.
Rick
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Rick McGuire <object.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, I guess I'm good with that. Since we need to tweak this a bit, I
> suggest we leave oorexx.nsi unchanged and check in a new file to build from
> (and I agree, a custom script might not be a bad idea). A batch file is a
> good idea here, although I wonder if we can add a to the cmake script that
> is not part of the ALL category so that this becomes an NMAKE target we can
> invoke from the build directory in question. The cmake script already
> knows about the locations for everything, and we can probably build in a
> dependency for the doc files so it will refuse to build without the files
> there.
>
> I just checked in a change to the cmake script to copy those additional
> class files (and rexxtry) to the bin directory. For test/development
> purposes, it makes sense for those to be part of the build.
>
> Rick
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Mark Miesfeld <miesf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry I wasn't engaged in this topic earlier. But, I don't agree with
>> the approach we've taken with this.
>>
>> We have a perfectly good NSIS script that produces the NSIS installer on
>> Windows. This script has been refined over the years until it is at the
>> point it is today.
>>
>> I think we should just stick with it.
>>
>> It took me about an hour to get it working with the CPack build. It
>> doesn't make any changes to the way the non-CPack NSIS installer worked.
>> And most of the time was because the CPack build isn't including some of
>> the *.cls files yet. socket.cls, csvStream.cls, etc.. Also there was a
>> change to the API samples directory that was included in the the current
>> oorexx.nsi script
>>
>> It is slightly awkward because you need to cd from the build directory to
>> the source directory and then run a long command line:
>>
>> *C:\work.ooRexx\wc\build>cd \work.ooRexx\wc\main\platform\windows\install*
>>
>> *C:\work.ooRexx\wc\main\platform\windows\install>*
>>
>> *C:\work.ooRexx\wc\main\platform\windows\install>makensis /DVERSION=4.3.0
>> /DNODOTVER=430 /DSRCDIR=c:\work.ooRexx\wc\m*
>> *ain /DBINDIR=C:\work.ooRexx\wc\build\bin /DCPU=x64 cpack.nsi*
>>
>> That could be fixed with a simple Rexx or .bat script.
>>
>> Using a CPack generated NSIS script has, I believe, some problems that
>> will force the next Windows installer to behave differently.
>>
>> 1.) We have the bin files being placed in a different directory.
>>
>> 2.) The CPack NSIS script writes the uninstall information to a different
>> registry location. This will be a problem with the automatic
>> uninstallation of an existing install. It will also cause problems with
>> the "upgrade" option on Windows. Both of these can probably be fixed by
>> checking both registry locations. But, still, that is a good bit of added
>> work.
>>
>> I know Rick has put in a lot of time on a CPack generated NSIS script.
>> But, I think there is still a lot of time that needs to be spent on it.
>>
>> I'm in favor of just sticking with our current script.
>>
>> --
>> Mark Miesfeld
>>
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