Rwindows.kde.org & Digikam

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi,

On Friday 10 September 2010, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> Do you tried CPack way provided by CMake to create a dedicated
> installer under windows ?
> 
> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:Component_Install_With_CPack

the main difficulty in creating a standalone installer for windows was how to 
deal with the external dependencies, i.e. in our case installations of kdebase 
and R. Most of RKWard needs to be installed into the KDE-directory, and some 
more files need to be installed into a subfolder of the R installation. I have 
not looked at CPack in too much depth, but I'm not sure it is even possible to 
make this work. Currently we use NSIS for the standalone installer. That does 
not really make it easy to install to some specific existing locations, but at 
least it can be coerced to support this 
(http://rkward.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rkward/trunk/rkward/windows_nsis/installer.nsi?view=markup, 
if you are interested).

If something similar is possible with CPack, I'd very much interested in 
having an example to look at.

Creating a complete installation bundle (i.e. including KDE and R) is trivial 
in comparison. Just install locally, and zip it all up (most difficult part is 
complying with the GPL, which means you need to offer the sources, too, in some 
form or another).

Regards
Thomas
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