Package the MSI from within a custom target

README.adoc

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ plus rsvg-convert from librsvg2, icotool from icoutils, and msitools ≥ 0.102.
 Beware that the build will take up about a gigabyte of disk space.
 
  $ sh -e msys2-configure.sh builddir
- $ meson install -C builddir
+ $ meson compile package -C builddir
 
 If everything succeeds, you will find a portable build of the application
 in the 'builddir/package' subdirectory, and a very basic MSI installation

meson.build

@@ -338,11 +338,7 @@ elif meson.is_cross_build()
 	msys2_root = meson.get_external_property('msys2_root')
 	meson.add_install_script('msys2-install.sh', msys2_root)
 
-	# TODO: If we used DESTDIR instead of the prefix, this could probably
+	wxs = configure_file(
-	# be a custom target that invokes "meson install --destdir $(pwd)/package"
-	# through "meson compile -C builddir msi". Try it out, also in MSYS2.
-	meson.add_install_script('msys2-package.sh', host_machine.cpu())
-	configure_file(
 		input : 'fiv.wxs.in',
 		output : 'fiv.wxs',
 		configuration : configuration_data({
@@ -350,6 +346,16 @@ elif meson.is_cross_build()
 			'ProjectVersion' : meson.project_version(),
 		}),
 	)
+	custom_target('package',
+		output : 'fiv.msi',
+		command : [meson.current_source_dir() / 'msys2-package.sh',
+			host_machine.cpu(), 'fiv.msi', wxs],
+		env : ['MESON_BUILD_ROOT=' + meson.current_build_dir(),
+			'MESON_SOURCE_ROOT=' + meson.current_source_dir()],
+		console : true,
+		build_always_stale : true,
+		build_by_default : false,
+	)
 
 	# This is the minimum to run targets from msys2-configure.sh builds.
 	meson.add_devenv({

msys2-configure.sh

@@ -120,13 +120,12 @@ setup() {
 	endian = 'little'
 	EOF
 
-	meson setup --buildtype=debugoptimized --prefix="$packagedir" \
+	meson setup --buildtype=debugoptimized --prefix=/ \
 		--bindir . --libdir . --cross-file="$toolchain" "$builddir" "$sourcedir"
 }
 
 sourcedir=$(realpath "${2:-$(dirname "$0")}")
 builddir=$(realpath "${1:-builddir}")
-packagedir=$builddir/package
 toolchain=$builddir/msys2-cross-toolchain.meson
 
 # This directory name matches the prefix in .pc files, so we don't need to

msys2-package.sh

@@ -1,9 +1,17 @@
 #!/bin/sh -e
-export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
+export LC_ALL=C
 cd "$MESON_BUILD_ROOT"
+arch=$1 msi=$2 files=package-files.wxs destdir=$(pwd)/package
+shift 2
+
+# We're being passed host_machine.cpu(), which will be either x86 or x86_64.
+[ "$arch" = "x86" ] || arch=x64
+
+rm -rf "$destdir"
+meson install --destdir "$destdir"
 
 txt2rtf() {
-	iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii//translit "$@" | awk 'BEGIN {
+	LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii//translit "$@" | awk 'BEGIN {
 		print "{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252\\deff0{\\fonttbl{\\f0 Tahoma;}}"
 		print "\\f0\\fs24{\\pard\\sa240"
 	} {
@@ -15,16 +23,12 @@ txt2rtf() {
 	}'
 }
 
-# We're being passed host_machine.cpu(), which will be either x86 or x86_64.
+# msitools have this filename hardcoded in UI files, and it's required.
-[ "$1" = "x86" ] && arch=x86 || arch=x64
-
-wxs=fiv.wxs files=fiv-files.wxs msi=fiv.msi
-
 txt2rtf "$MESON_SOURCE_ROOT/LICENSE" > License.rtf
-find "$MESON_INSTALL_DESTDIR_PREFIX" -type f \
-	| wixl-heat --prefix "$MESON_INSTALL_DESTDIR_PREFIX/" \
-		--directory-ref INSTALLDIR --component-group CG.fiv \
-		--var var.SourceDir > "$files"
 
-wixl --verbose --arch "$arch" -D SourceDir="$MESON_INSTALL_DESTDIR_PREFIX" \
+find "$destdir" -type f \
-	--ext ui --output "$msi" "$wxs" "$files"
+	| wixl-heat --prefix "$destdir/" --directory-ref INSTALLDIR \
+		--component-group CG.fiv --var var.SourceDir > "$files"
+
+wixl --verbose --arch "$arch" -D SourceDir="$destdir" --ext ui \
+	--output "$msi" "$@" "$files"