Very interresting. Thanks. I take a look. Q: What's about to patch Windows registery when you install your zip, as it do with KDE windows installer ?
Gilles 2010/9/10 Thomas Friedrichsmeier <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > On Friday 10 September 2010, Gilles Caulier wrote: >> Thanks for the info. >> >> Do you tried CPack way provided by CMake to create a dedicated >> installer under windows ? >> >> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:Component_Install_With_CPack > > the main difficulty in creating a standalone installer for windows was how to > deal with the external dependencies, i.e. in our case installations of kdebase > and R. Most of RKWard needs to be installed into the KDE-directory, and some > more files need to be installed into a subfolder of the R installation. I have > not looked at CPack in too much depth, but I'm not sure it is even possible to > make this work. Currently we use NSIS for the standalone installer. That does > not really make it easy to install to some specific existing locations, but at > least it can be coerced to support this > (http://rkward.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rkward/trunk/rkward/windows_nsis/installer.nsi?view=markup, > if you are interested). > > If something similar is possible with CPack, I'd very much interested in > having an example to look at. > > Creating a complete installation bundle (i.e. including KDE and R) is trivial > in comparison. Just install locally, and zip it all up (most difficult part is > complying with the GPL, which means you need to offer the sources, too, in > some > form or another). > > Regards > Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > Kde-windows mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows > > _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows
