These sound good for Windows, esp. NSIS which can build installers on (not for) any plaform (hence POSIX).
For Mac, the best solution is to pre-package the application bundle, which is just a simple folder with a few special files, and zip it. This can be done on any platform too. Installation is a snap: just double-click the zip and the app pops out on the Desktop. Then a typical Mac "install", which is just draging to a folder of user's choice. Linux is the hairiest due to multitude of incompatible distributions and DLL hell. I wonder how RunRev does that. Assumptions for UNIX is that jw is fixed to discover where it launched from and set JPATH* and *_LIBRARY_PATH. --- Pascal Heus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles and all: > NSIS is widely used by the open source community (I use it for several > of my products). You'll also find a couple of good NSIS script editors: > Venis (http://www.spaceblue.com/venis/welcome.php) and HM NIS EDIT > (http://hmne.sourceforge.net/). If you work under Eclipse, there is a > plugin available (see > http://nsis.sourceforge.net/EclipseNSIS_-_NSIS_plugin_for_Eclipse) > As pointed out before by Lorin, Inno Setup is also a very good option > and I have to say that the owner's domain name > (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) is so close to J's that it makes > it a heavy favorite :-) > best > Pascal > > Hine Charles wrote: > > Dear Sirs; > > I am not a developer, but in checking into Inno Setup I came across > > this tool for installer development, which may be of interest. > > > > http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2006-01.php > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSIS > > Nullsoft Scriptable Install System > > POSIX > > Version 2.01 was the first version to compile on POSIX platforms out > > of the box. This allows cross-compilation of Windows installers on > > Linux and FreeBSD without the usage of Wine. Currently, the only > > supported hardware platform is x86. > > > > Features > > > > Very small overhead > > zlib, bzip2, and LZMA compression > > Script-based > > Multilingual > > Plugin support > > Script preprocessor > > More... > > > > Notable products that use NSIS > > > > Mozilla Firefox 2.0 > > Winamp > > ATI Display Drive .......... > > OpenOffice.org for Windows > > Intel (C Compiler) > > Google (Picasa, Talk) > > FileZilla > > NASA World Wind > > LyX > > More ... > > I use MacOS 10.4.9 on a MacBook Pro, and am exploring J for my > > personal enrichment. > > > > charles hine > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > -- > All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. > -- Martin Luther King Jr. > www.quotator.net > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
