Rwindows.kde.org & Digikam

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at gmail.com
Sat Sep 11 07:39:53 CEST 2010


Very interresting. Thanks. I take a look.

Q: What's about to patch Windows registery when you install your zip,
as it do with KDE windows installer ?

Gilles

2010/9/10 Thomas Friedrichsmeier <thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>:
> 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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