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Reputation: 8396

Feeding a custom wxs file to CPackWIX

We are venturing in the idea to port our WiX based msi generation to CPackWIX, for our CMake projects.

It seems that the idea behind CPackWIX is to use heat.exe to create an installer that contains exactly the file present in the install directory. Is it possible to feed a custom wxs file instead?

The idea would be to then leverage the CPack integration in our development environment, i.e. the package target, while keeping complete control regarding the WiX descriptions used to create the msi installer.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1073

Answers (1)

vre
vre

Reputation: 6744

You can use the CPACK_WIX_TEMPLATE variable for that.

I have a custom wxs file for my installer that includes a custom wxi file. In my default installers I do it the following way:

install(TARGETS yourTarget EXPORT "${PROJECT_NAME}${PROJECT_VERSION}"
    COMPONENT AppBinaries
    LIBRARY DESTINATION bin
    RUNTIME DESTINATION bin CONFIGURATIONS Release)

# this file is copied and renamed to main.wxs by CPack
set(CPACK_WIX_TEMPLATE   "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/packageInstallerCPack.wxs.in")
set(CPACK_WIX_UI_REF     "WixUI_FeatureTree")
set(CPACK_WIX_EXTENSIONS "WixUtilExtension")

configure_file("${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/packageDefinesCPack.wxi.in" "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/packageDefinesCPack.wxi" @ONLY)
set(CPACK_WIX_CANDLE_EXTRA_FLAGS "-I${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}") # for packageDefinesCPack.wxi to work
set(CPACK_WIX_LIGHT_EXTRA_FLAGS  "-loc" "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/AdditionalWixUI_en-us.wxl") # for localization to work, not needed now, but who knows

include(CPack)
include(CPackWIX)

cpack_add_component(AppBinaries DISPLAY_NAME "Binaries" DESCRIPTION "${CPACK_PACKAGE_NAME} Binaries")

To build my MSI package I use cpack -C Release -G WIX.

Upvotes: 1

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