> Aaaah, this drives me nuts! I ported some neat little program from > X11 (yes, pure X11) to MS Windows, using Visual Studio 2005 > throughout the project. Now I want to send the executable to the > users, but that doesn't work that simple. > > I have been taught over the last three days that I *must* use the > Microsoft Installer via an MSI file. Where would we be in this world > if users could just drag an app onto their desktop and launch it?
I think Greg posted some comments before on what he'd done to work with/around M$'s latest and greatest impediment to clarity and understanding. But I can't find them now. I vaguely recall he may have reverted to VC6 and just ignored the whole manifest/installer business in the end though... FWIW, I can strongly recommend the mingw/Msys option - the exe's we build on our XP hosts with mingw seem to run just fine, even on vista, with no installer or manifest or any such nonsense. Cheers, -- Ian SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems Limited Registered Office: Sigma House, Christopher Martin Road, Basildon, Essex SS14 3EL A company registered in England & Wales. Company no. 02426132 ******************************************************************** This email and any attachments are confidential to the intended recipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender. You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person. ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
