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POhow get cpack to generate correct start menu shortcuts
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    copied!<p>I want to create an installer for some programs on windows with cmake and cpack. I want to be able to select which programs to install and the selected programs shall show up in the start menu as shortcuts. Here is a simple try. Have done one component for each program but can't figure out how to generate the start-menu variable. Now all programs is always in the menu even if they are not selected to be installed. First is a simple program to be installed.</p> <pre><code>#include &lt;iostream&gt; #include &lt;conio.h&gt; int main() { std::cout &lt;&lt; "prog1" &lt;&lt; std::endl; _getch(); return 0; } </code></pre> <p>and here is the CMakeLists.txt file</p> <pre><code>cmake_minimum_required( VERSION 2.8 ) project ( CompoTest ) add_executable(prog1 prog1.cpp) add_executable(prog2 prog2.cpp) add_executable(prog3 prog3.cpp) install(TARGETS prog1 RUNTIME DESTINATION bin COMPONENT compo1) install(TARGETS prog2 RUNTIME DESTINATION bin COMPONENT compo2) install(TARGETS prog3 RUNTIME DESTINATION bin COMPONENT compo3) set ( CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION "1.0.0" ) set(CPACK_PACKAGE_EXECUTABLES prog1 "prog 1" prog2 "prog 2" prog3 "prog 3" ) set ( CPACK_COMPONENTS_ALL compo1 compo2 compo3 ) include (CPack) </code></pre> <p>The problem is to generate start menu shortcuts depending on which program is selected in the installation I thought it should be easy but it seems not to be. Is it possible to do this.</p> <p>Update: I find that no start menu shortcuts is generated for any example in <a href="http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:Component_Install_With_CPack" rel="noreferrer">http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:Component_Install_With_CPack</a> or am I doing something wrong?</p>
 

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