Qt cmake deployment API and Cpack not working for macos

Mesrine

Hello everyone,
I am trying to use Qt cmake deployment API, cpack and the IFW from CMake but have problems for Macos bundles.
It seems that cpackIFW runs internally the macdeploy tool and this one fails to find app bundle.
If I run cmake --install . there is no error because it is running macdeploy from CMAKEINSTALLPREFIX but when executing cpack -B package -G "IFW;TGZ" --config CPackConfig.cmake it fails to find the app bundle.
The cmake I use is here.
Any help will be much appreciated.

Mesrine

@Mesrine
When running cpack in verbose mode it returns :

CPack Verbose: Running Qt deploy tool for QVaultCli.app in working directory '/Users/runner/work/_temp/build/package/_CPack_Packages/Darwin/IFW/QtVault-v0.1.2+gbed06b0.20240325092904-Darwin_21.6.0-x86_64-AppleClang/packages/vaultCli/data'

this comes from here

So it seems QT_DEPLOY_PREFIX = CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX the latter is set by cpack.
I can see that the bundle is installed but in the Unspecified component.

CPack Verbose: Installing: /Users/runner/work/_temp/build/package/_CPack_Packages/Darwin/IFW/QtVault-v0.1.2+gbed06b0.20240325092904-Darwin_21.6.0-x86_64-AppleClang/packages/Unspecified/data/./QVaultCli.app
CPack Verbose: Installing: /Users/runner/work/_temp/build/package/_CPack_Packages/Darwin/IFW/QtVault-v0.1.2+gbed06b0.20240325092904-Darwin_21.6.0-x86_64-AppleClang/packages/Unspecified/data/./QVaultCli.app/Contents
CPack Verbose: Installing: /Users/runner/work/_temp/build/package/_CPack_Packages/Darwin/IFW/QtVault-v0.1.2+gbed06b0.20240325092904-Darwin_21.6.0-x86_64-AppleClang/packages/Unspecified/data/./QVaultCli.app/Contents/MacOS
CPack Verbose: Installing: /Users/runner/work/_temp/build/package/_CPack_Packages/Darwin/IFW/QtVault-v0.1.2+gbed06b0.20240325092904-Darwin_21.6.0-x86_64-AppleClang/packages/Unspecified/data/./QVaultCli.app/Contents/MacOS/QVaultCli
CPack Verbose: Installing: /Users/runner/work/_temp/build/package/_CPack_Packages/Darwin/IFW/QtVault-v0.1.2+gbed06b0.20240325092904-Darwin_21.6.0-x86_64-AppleClang/packages/Unspecified/data/./QVaultCli.app/Contents/Info.plist

But macdeploy is run from the vaultCli component.
Lets try removing the components in the cmake install command of the deploy script .

Mesrine

@Mesrine said in Qt cmake deployment API and Cpack not working for macos:

Unspecified

That was the problem.
It seems that

install(TARGETS QVaultCli
                        BUNDLE DESTINATION .
                         RUNTIME DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR}
               COMPONENT vaultCli
                           )

Do not add the bundle to the cpack vaultCli component.