{"id":681,"date":"2010-06-03T21:57:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T20:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2010-06-03T22:31:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T21:31:53","slug":"makefile-based-innosetup-automation-with-qmake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/2010\/06\/03\/makefile-based-innosetup-automation-with-qmake\/","title":{"rendered":"Makefile-based InnoSetup automation with QMake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last couple of weeks I did several major improvements to the QMake-based build setup guitone<\/a> uses: The project file comes now with one target to create a tarball, one to create a Mac OS X disk image containing all the needed Qt libraries and one target to install the application, which can be configured to use all the options you know from autotool-based projects (like PREFIX, BINDIR or DESTDIR, to name a few).<\/p>\n

But yes, there was one task which was yet missing there – one to automatically create a Win32 installer. The steps to produce that had been so far:<\/p>\n

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  1. enter the to-be-packaged version in the InnoSetup script file<\/li>\n
  2. convert the supplied text files from Unix to DOS line endings, while giving them a .txt extension<\/li>\n
  3. call the InnoSetup compiler on the script file and create the executable<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Especially the first and second action looked hard to automate, given the fact that Windows does not come with a rich set of tools to process text streams – and requiring a Cygwin installation just for using sed<\/code> seemed awkward to me. Obviously other people had similar problems before and somebody proposed<\/a> to emulate sed with a VBScript which would be executed by the Windows Scripting Host (WSH). Wow, cool thing – if I’d just remember my broken Visual Basic knowledge. But didn’t Microsoft have this Javascript Look-a-Like, JScript? Shouldn’t this be executable as well?<\/p>\n

    Apparently it was and I sat down to hack an improved JScript sed<\/code> version:<\/p>\n

    var patterns = new Array();
    \n var replacements = new Array();
    \n var argcount = 0;<\/p>\n

    for (var i=0; icscript<\/code> and to combine everything for a proper QMake target. Here we go:<\/p>\n

    \r\nDOCFILES=\"NEWS README README.driver COPYING\"\r\n...\r\nwin32 {\r\n    isEmpty(QTDIR):QTDIR           = \"c:\\Qt\\4.6.2\"\r\n    isEmpty(MINGWDIR):MINGWDIR     = \"c:\\MinGW\"\r\n    isEmpty(OPENSSLDIR):OPENSSLDIR = \"c:\\OpenSSL\"\r\n    isEmpty(ISCC):ISCC = \"c:\\Program Files\\Inno Setup 5\\ISCC.exe\"\r\n    \r\n    win32setup.depends  = make_first\r\n    win32setup.target   = win32setup\r\n    win32setup.commands = \\\r\n        cscript \/\/NoLogo res\\win32\\sed.js \\\r\n            s\/@@VERSION@@\/$${VERSION}\/ \\\r\n            s\/@@QTDIR@@\/$${QTDIR}\/ \\\r\n            s\/@@MINGWDIR@@\/$${MINGWDIR}\/ \\\r\n            s\/@@OPENSSLDIR@@\/$${OPENSSLDIR}\/ \\\r\n            < res\\win32\\guitone.iss.in > res\\win32\\guitone.iss && \\\r\n        ( for %%f in ($$DOCFILES) do \\\r\n            cscript \/\/NoLogo res\\win32\\sed.js \\\r\n                s\/\\n\\$$\/\\r\\n\/ \\\r\n                < %%f > %%f.txt ) && \\\r\n        \\\"$$ISCC\\\" res\\win32\\guitone.iss && \\\r\n        ( for %%f IN ($$DOCFILES) do del %%f.txt )\r\n    \r\n    QMAKE_EXTRA_TARGETS += win32setup\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
    So if you know enough Javascript you can probably emulate whatever tool you’re missing on Win32 without having to depend on any external dependency. Very cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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