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diff --git a/Help/guide/tutorial/Packaging an Installer.rst b/Help/guide/tutorial/Packaging an Installer.rst index 5eb3e3e5f6..55e74e06b6 100644 --- a/Help/guide/tutorial/Packaging an Installer.rst +++ b/Help/guide/tutorial/Packaging an Installer.rst @@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ libraries that are needed by the project for the current platform. Next we set some CPack variables to where we have stored the license and version information for this project. The version information was set earlier in this tutorial and the ``license.txt`` has been included in the top-level source -directory for this step. +directory for this step. The :variable:`CPACK_SOURCE_GENERATOR` variable +selects a file format for the source package. Finally we include the :module:`CPack module <CPack>` which will use these variables and some other properties of the current system to setup an @@ -44,7 +45,11 @@ To specify the generator, use the ``-G`` option. For multi-config builds, use cpack -G ZIP -C Debug -To create a source distribution you would type: +For a list of available generators, see :manual:`cpack-generators(7)` or call +``cpack --help``. An :cpack_gen:`archive generator <CPack Archive Generator>` +like ZIP creates a compressed archive of all *installed* files. + +To create an archive of the *full* source tree you would type: .. code-block:: console |