Hey Eric, thanks for the quick reply!
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Eric Noulard <[email protected]> wrote: > > While doing this I noticed neither WIN32 nor CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING are > > defined at CPack time, why? > > > May be because no one did really tackle the cross-packaging problem? > Cross-compiling is one thing, cross packaging is another one > (which may be difficult or impossible in the general case). > Ah okay :-) > > This is the reason my code in the patch is not in the WIN32 block above > and > > I couldn't guess the gp_tool correctly. > > In order to be sure that nothing else is breaking you can try to > [manually] add the missing definition in the CPackConfig.cmake file. > This file is loaded by CPack at CPack-time so that any definitions in there > will be seen during CPack run. > Went fine. An alternative would be to do it in a CPack Project Config file: > > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:CPackPackageGenerators#Overall_usage_.28common_to_all_generators.29 > Might make sense, indeed. That way you could explicitly say if you want to cross-package or not. By the way how does GetPrerequisite get called ? Is it does through > BundleUtilities? > I'm not using those so, are they called at [CPack-]install time ? > Yes. I'm using DeployQt4, which uses BundleUtilities, which use GetPrerequisites. > > A hardcoded list of .dll names is for sure not really elegant, but I > don't > > know of any way to check if a required .dll is a windows system library. > On > > Linux of course there are no Windows system dlls in a certain folder and > the > > absence of such a dll doesn't mean anything either because an import lib > > (.dll.a usually) is enough to link against. > > > > The patch is probably not ready to be upstreamed but I'm happy to fix > issues > > or follow a nicer approach if you point me to it. > > Before going on may be you could explain us what kind of > cross-packaging your are targeting: > NSIS, Archive generator, etc... > NSIS is the one I'm aiming for :-) > Setting WIN32 and/or CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING may be done in CPack list > interpreter > but it remains to be seen whether it would be enough in order to > achieve what you want. > I think so, it already works when gp_tool is manually set to objdump! -- > Erk > Le gouvernement représentatif n'est pas la démocratie -- > http://www.le-message.org > Best regards, Dominik
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