windows installer

[Farkas Levente]

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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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"