2012/4/3 Jonatan Wallmander <jona...@vovoid.com>: > Hi, > > I'm on cmake version 2.8.5 > > I looked in the changelog and couldn't find this, so here goes: > > > From what I can tell, NSIS with CPACK_PACKAGE_EXECUTABLES and giving > parameters to the executable isn't supported. > > CMakeLists.txt: > set(CPACK_PACKAGE_EXECUTABLES "my_executable -f;My Executable") > > Resulting row in the cpack NSIS cache file: > > CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\$STARTMENU_FOLDER\My Executable.lnk" > "$INSTDIR\.\my_executable -f.exe" > > I propose 2 possible solutions: > > 1. (best option IMO) > > Add support for a 3rd parameter for flags, like so: > set(CPACK_PACKAGE_EXECUTABLES "my_executable;My Executable;-f") > > Since executables actually CAN have spaces in them, this would be best.
The trouble is the "S" of CPACK_PACKAGE_EXECUTABLES means you can currently give something like: set(CPACK_PACKAGE_EXECUTABLES "my_exe1;My Exe1;my_exe2;My Exe2") so that it will be hard to maintain backward compatibility with option1. > 2. (secondary option) > Add support for parsing the executable on spaces, everything after the first > space goes last in the call. > > I.e. set(CPACK_PACKAGE_EXECUTABLES "my_executable -f;My Executable") Then I may suggest a 3rd option set(CPACK_PACKAGE_EXECUTABLES "my_executable;my_executable_ARGS -f;My Executable") that way we can check from the value right after "executable" that ARGS are provided for the preceding executable, so that the new pattern would be: set(CPACK_PACKAGE_EXECUTABLES "<exeName>;[<exeName>_ARGS<space><args>;]<someString>") Beware of the fact that currently NSIS generator is not the only CPack generator that uses CPACK_PACKAGE_EXECUTABLES OSXX11 uses it as well. Moreover the (in-source) code comment seems outdated or partially wrong since ones can read: cmCPackLogger(cmCPackLog::LOG_ERROR, "CPACK_PACKAGE_EXECUTABLES should contain pairs of <executable> and " "<icon name>." << std::endl); AFAIK, there is no "icon" here just the name of the menu entry? -- Erk Le gouvernement représentatif n'est pas la démocratie -- http://www.le-message.org -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake