Re: windows installer
Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 02:49:46PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> hi,
> what's the plan for the created binary usage on windows? ie. we now
> create a lots of libs eg: gtk, openssl etc. and create some application
> packages like virt-manager. how this will be installed on a real windows
> machine at the end? of course there would be useful some installer. for
> the final application it's trivial that someone have to create an
> installer eg nsis or something like this. but what about the libs? you
> assume each installer also package all required libs? imho it'd be
> better if we can create some kind of installer for all libs too eg for
> glib2 there will be a nsis-glib2.exe in tha package and this contain the
> full executable or ...?
> or that's the reason for nsiswrapper?
In theory you should be able to do:
nsiswrapper somebinary.exe
and it will pull in all the dependencies and produce a Windows
installer. For Gtk you may need a few extra flags (although really it
should detect Gtk automatically and do the Right Thing).
yes i understood this, but with this way if we've got 3 different apps
with use gtk the gtk (and all other dependencies) will be installed 3
times on the windows machine. which is imho not the best way, but i can
live with it.
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