[PD-dev] Windows installer for Pd

[Miller Puckette]

I'll have a look at this and if it works for me I'll be happy to use it
to make an installer for the 0.47 release (late Dec. probably :)

M

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:54:34PM +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2015-11-10 at 12:13 -0700, Dan Wilcox wrote:
> > Exactly. I see no reason why is has to be installer OR zip. Most open
> > source projects provide *both* and leave it up to the downloaders.
> > 
> > 
> > (Also, I don’t believe Roman was ever advocating for *not* providing a
> > zip.)
> > 
> > 
> > How does creating the installer work? 
> 
> I tried it with NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System). You write
> a .nsi script and then you compile the script with NSIS compiler. The
> result is an installer as exe. 
> 
> The not so nice part about NSIS is that you have to list every single
> file of your source packet explicitly and tell it where to install.
> Since it is inconvenient to touch that script whenever a new version is
> released, I added a bash script that creates the file list automatically
> for a given Pd-for-Windows folder.
> 
> Once you have Wine and NSIS installed, it's really only a matter of
> running the included bash script to create an updated Pd installer. I
> only tried it on Linux, but if you have bash on Windows, it should work
> there as well.
> 
> You can try it yourself:
> http://www.netpd.org/~roman/tmp/nsis_installer/
> 
> Roman
> 
> > Is it be a script that just bundles the build/zip file contents etc?
> > If so, I see no reason why calling a script can’t
> > be added to the current Windows build process that already generates a
> > zip …
> 
> 



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