How do I add the RequestExecutionLevel option of NSIS to a CMakeLists.txt

Question

I am trying to get an installer compiled with NSIS on Windows 7 to work without administrator privileges. The project is set up with CMake and compiled with VC2010. I have figured out that I have to use the

RequestExecutionLevel user

option. My question is: What do I have to put into my CMakeLists.txt to pass this option to NSIS? I found

set(CPACK_NSIS_EXTRA_INSTALL_COMMANDS "RequestExecutionLevel user")

somewhere on google, but that gives an error, saying that this option cannot be set in this section.

Any help is greatly appreciated

I don't know CMake, but in NSIS, RequestExecutionLevel is installer attribute (not valid in the section). So you can put it anywhere in your script except in a section or function. Is that it? — zbynour, Dec 16 '11 at 15:49

mlt · Answer 1 · 2014-10-06T19:45:19.600

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The version of CMake that I have has @CPACK_NSIS_DEFINES@ in NSIS template, so adding set(CPACK_NSIS_DEFINES "RequestExecutionLevel user") to CMakeLists.txt does the job as well.

Although it may require extra work for component based install.

edited Oct 06 '14 at 19:45

answered Oct 06 '14 at 19:37

mlt

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 31 '12 at 06:50

You can try following steps:

Copy NSIS.template.in to your project directory, e.g. a subdirectory named "packaging":

xcopy \cmake-install-path\modules\share\cmake-xxx\Modules\NSIS.template.in \your-project-directory\packaging\
Add RequestExecutionLevel user to NSIS.template.in
Update CMAKE_MODULE_PATH in CMakeLists.txt:

list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/packaging)

Then rebuild your package to see if it works.

How do I add the RequestExecutionLevel option of NSIS to a CMakeLists.txt

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