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Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] Wiki to disappear: docs in progress
From: Doug Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-12 16:32:15


On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Doug Gregor <doug.gregor_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> ....
>> I suspect it's just:
>>
>>  nmake modularize
>>
>> then
>>
>>  nmake package
>
> Yeah, that's what I did. Died on bcp again, so I removed the bcp
> checkmark, did configure/generate again, and was back in business.
>
> The various nmake runs went much faster - a good sign.
>
> Got down to:
>
> ...
> Run CPack packaging tool...
> CPack: Create package using NSIS
> CPack: Install projects
> CPack: - Run preinstall target for: Boost
> CPack: - Install project: Boost
> CPack: -   Install component: Unspecified
> CPack: -   Install component: accumulators_headers
> CPack: -   Install component: algorithm_headers
> ...
> CPack: -   Install component: variant_headers
> CPack: -   Install component: wave_headers
> CPack: -   Install component: wave_mt_shared
> CPack: -   Install component: xpressive_headers
> CPack: Compress package
> CPack Error: Problem running NSIS command: "C:/Program Files
> (x86)/NSIS/makensis.exe" "C:/boost/rele
> ase-cmake-build/_CPack_Packages/win32/NSIS/project.nsi"
> Please check C:/boost/release-cmake-build/_CPack_Packages/win32/NSIS/NSISOutput.log
> for errors
> CPack Error: Problem compressing the directory
> CPack Error: Error when generating package: Boost
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake
> 2.6\bin\cpack.exe"' : return code '0x1'
> Stop.
>
> One clue might be that the CMake setup shows the UNZIP value as
> "C:/bgd/util/unzip.exe" That's almost certainly not the unzip program
> CMake expects. Perhaps I need to install cygwin zip/unzip programs?
> I'll see if they've got anything by that name.

Ugh. It's probably not zip/unzip per se. More likely, NSIS didn't like
the project file it was given. If you could post the contents of
C:/boost/release-cmake-build/_CPack_Packages/win32/NSIS/NSISOutput.log,
it would help us debug.

I have *got* to get my hands on a Windows machine.

  - Doug


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