Packaging on Windows

[woutdenolf]

I'm trying to create a WiX installer with these tools:

• Windows 7
• cmake 3.10.3
• WiX toolset 3.11
• Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 with VC++ 2015.3 v140 toolset and Windows 10 SDK (couldn't get it to work with SDK 8.1 for now: it complains about missing "ucrtd.lib", but this is another matter)

Dependencies:

• build LZ4 from source (https://github.com/lz4/lz4)
• HDF5 pre-build binaries (https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdf5/)

Create the Package:

git clone https://github.com/nexusformat/HDF5-External-Filter-Plugins.git
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION=10.0 -DENABLE_LZ4_PLUGIN=true -DENABLE_BITSHUFFLE_PLUGIN=true -DLZ4_ROOT="%programfiles%\LZ4"
msbuild hdf5_filter_plugins.sln /p:Configuration=Release
msbuild PACKAGE.vcxproj /p:Configuration=Release

Error log after the last command:

CMake Error at cmake_install.cmake:48 (file):
file INSTALL cannot find
"C:/projects/hdf5plugins/HDF5-External-Filter-Plugins/build/bin/lz4.dll".

This goes for every file that is added to EXTERNAL_LIBRARIES in the master CMakeLists.txt

What is responsible for moving the DLL's in the /bin directory? This directory is not created so I must be missing something.

[newville]

@eugenwintersberger @woutdenolf has anyone been able to build these plugins on Windows?
If so, what compiler/settings work to build this?

I'd like to have a DLL that I could use with h5py and Anaconda Python to be able to read LZ4-compressed HDF5 files (as from Eiger detector).

Debugging the cmake build process is slightly beyond "easy" for me.