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[Philip Lee <rocketman768@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is done with CPack for CMake. See:

http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:CPackPackageGenerators
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:CPackNSISAdvancedTips


On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 8:13 PM, mik firestone <mikfire@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Where do these scripts and/or source files for the Windows installers
> live? I can't seem to find them.
>
> Mik
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 6:00 PM, mik firestone <mikfire@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Yeah. Looks like it can be done. Gonna have to learn the scripting
>> language to do this, but I think this makes way more sense than the hoops I
>> likely would have had to jump through to do this via qt.
>>
>> Give me a few days to figure this out.
>>
>> Mik
>> On Aug 24, 2013 2:58 PM, "Philip Lee" <rocketman768@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Good idea. Yes, I know you can run scripts with the NSIS installer.
>>> Check into that and let me know if it looks good or bad.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 1:53 PM, mik firestone <mikfire@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think it may be too late by that point, but I will look into it. My
>>>> other thought is maybe we can do something with the installer? If we could
>>>> move these dialogs into that, all the problems go away. It would also allow
>>>> us to keep the very specific windows stuff isolated.
>>>>
>>>> I guess I'll start researching if that can be done and how to do it if
>>>> it can.
>>>>
>>>> Mik
>>>> On Aug 24, 2013 2:18 PM, "Philip Lee" <rocketman768@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This is not exactly pretty, but can we start the event loop and,
>>>>> instead of bringing up the MainWindow directly, bring up some little
>>>>> upgrade dialog that starts the main window when it exits?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:01 PM, mik firestone <mikfire@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> For this release, yes. After this release, that information will be
>>>>>> available in the registry and we can skip the prompt and file browser.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mik
>>>>>> On Aug 24, 2013 12:49 PM, "Philip Lee" <rocketman768@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is this the (ideal) process for upgrading on windows?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1) Ask user where old installation is.
>>>>>>> 2) Copy old database into new installation.
>>>>>>> 3) Start up as normal and all the migrations happen.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:22 PM, mik firestone <mikfire@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm slowly working on getting the Windows upgrades working the way
>>>>>>>> I expected them to work. I actually have the v1.2.x databases being
>>>>>>>> properly upgraded.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The v2.0.x databases are proving to be more challenging, for all
>>>>>>>> that the operations are theoretically easier. In short, I cannot figure out
>>>>>>>> how to copy the old database into place. For a lot of reasons (most of them
>>>>>>>> involving prompts, file browsers, etc.), I cannot do this until the
>>>>>>>> MainWindow is instantiated and qApp->exec() is called. It seems mucking
>>>>>>>> with the database file after MainWindow has been instantiated causes a core
>>>>>>>> dump.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Does anybody have a clever idea on how to do this?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Mik
>>>>>>>>
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