##// END OF EJS Templates
upstream » mercurial-mirror
RSS

Clone from https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg-all

packaging: stage installed files for Inno...
packaging: stage installed files for Inno Previously, the Inno installer maintained its own mapping of source files to install location. (We have to maintain a similar mapping in the WiX installer.) Managing the explicit file layout for Windows packages is cumbersome and redundant. Every time you want to change the layout you need to change N locations. We frequently forget to do this and we only find out when people install Mercurial from our packages at release time. This commit starts the process of consolidating and simplifying the logic for managing the install layout on Windows. We introduce a list of install layout rules. These are simply source filenames (which can contain wildcards) and destination paths. The Inno packaging code has been updated to assemble all files into a staging directory that mirrors the final install layout. The list of files to add to the installer is derived by walking this staging directory and dynamically emitting the proper entries for the Inno Setup script. I diffed the file layout before and after this commit and there is no difference. Another benefit of this change is that it facilitates easier testing of the Windows install layout. Before, in order to test the final install layout, you needed to build an installer and run it. Now, you can stage files into the final layout and test from there, without running the installer. This should cut down on overhead when changing Windows code. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7159
Gregory Szorc -
r43916:d053d3f1 default
Show More
Name Size Modified Last Commit Author
/ contrib / packaging / inno
mercurial.iss Loading ...
modpath.iss Loading ...
readme.rst Loading ...
requirements.txt Loading ...
requirements.txt.in Loading ...

Requirements

Building the Inno installer requires a Windows machine.

The following system dependencies must be installed:

Building

The packaging.py script automates the process of producing an Inno installer. It manages fetching and configuring the non-system dependencies (such as py2exe, gettext, and various Python packages).

The script requires an activated Visual C++ 2008 command prompt. A shortcut to such a prompt was installed with Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7. From your Start Menu, look for Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler Package for Python 2.7 then launch either Visual C++ 2008 32-bit Command Prompt or Visual C++ 2008 64-bit Command Prompt.

From the prompt, change to the Mercurial source directory. e.g. cd c:\src\hg.

Next, invoke packaging.py to produce an Inno installer. You will need to supply the path to the Python interpreter to use.:

$ python3.exe contrib\packaging\packaging.py \
    inno --python c:\python27\python.exe

Note

The script validates that the Visual C++ environment is active and that the architecture of the specified Python interpreter matches the Visual C++ environment and errors if not.

If everything runs as intended, dependencies will be fetched and configured into the build sub-directory, Mercurial will be built, and an installer placed in the dist sub-directory. The final line of output should print the name of the generated installer.

Additional options may be configured. Run packaging.py inno --help to see a list of program flags.

MinGW

It is theoretically possible to generate an installer that uses MinGW. This isn't well tested and packaging.py and may properly support it. See old versions of this file in version control for potentially useful hints as to how to achieve this.