NSIS also works for linux, it just has a small different command line interface. Here is a patch from Michal Čihař to make it work.
Index: cmake-2.4.6/Source/CPack/cmCPackGenerators.cxx
===================================================================
--- cmake-2.4.6.orig/Source/CPack/cmCPackGenerators.cxx
+++ cmake-2.4.6/Source/CPack/cmCPackGenerators.cxx
@@ -35,10 +35,8 @@
cmCPackTGZGenerator::CreateGenerator);
this->RegisterGenerator("STGZ", "Self extracting Tar GZip compression",
cmCPackSTGZGenerator::CreateGenerator);
-#ifdef _WIN32
this->RegisterGenerator("NSIS", "Null Soft Installer",
cmCPackNSISGenerator::CreateGenerator);
-#endif
this->RegisterGenerator("ZIP", "ZIP file format",
cmCPackZIPGenerator::CreateGenerator);
this->RegisterGenerator("TBZ2", "Tar BZip2 compression",
Index: cmake-2.4.6/Source/CPack/cmCPackNSISGenerator.cxx
===================================================================
--- cmake-2.4.6.orig/Source/CPack/cmCPackNSISGenerator.cxx
+++ cmake-2.4.6/Source/CPack/cmCPackNSISGenerator.cxx
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@
#include <cmsys/Directory.hxx>
#include <cmsys/RegularExpression.hxx>
+/* NSIS uses different command line syntax on Windows and others */
+#ifdef WIN32
+#define NSIS_OPT "/"
+#else
+#define NSIS_OPT "-"
+#endif
+
//----------------------------------------------------------------------
cmCPackNSISGenerator::cmCPackNSISGenerator()
{
@@ -144,6 +151,7 @@
<< std::endl);
std::vector<std::string> path;
std::string nsisPath;
+#ifdef WIN32
if ( !cmsys::SystemTools::ReadRegistryValue(
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\NSIS", nsisPath) )
{
@@ -156,6 +164,7 @@
return 0;
}
path.push_back(nsisPath);
+#endif
nsisPath = cmSystemTools::FindProgram("makensis", path, false);
if ( nsisPath.empty() )
{
@@ -163,7 +172,7 @@
<< std::endl);
return 0;
}
- std::string nsisCmd = "\"" + nsisPath + "\" /VERSION";
+ std::string nsisCmd = "\"" + nsisPath + "\" " NSIS_OPT "VERSION";
cmCPackLogger(cmCPackLog::LOG_VERBOSE, "Test NSIS version: "
<< nsisCmd.c_str() << std::endl);
std::string output;
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