windows installer

[Richard W.M. Jones]

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).

> anyway nsiswrapper missing from the temporary repo. is there a reason
> for this?

Yes!  It's because of a bug in smock where it forgot about any
packages that didn't have a dependency relation with another package.
I've fixed the bug in smock and will rebuild a few missing packages
shortly.

Rich.

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