After having given the idea some thought, there's not much left of my
initial enthusiasm. In fact, while it may be true that you can achieve stuff
that you can't with 3rd party installers, at least on Windows, the sheer
size of the executables produced by RB makes it impractical to develop and
use your own RB based installer.
This is all of course IMHO.
I've been getting my feet wet in C and C++, and it suddenly doesn't look all
that difficult to 'roll your own' installer in C. At least I can combine the
joy of learning a new language with the reward of an executable being,
guessing here, around 10% the size of the smallest RB executable.
Ronald Vogelaar
http://www.rovosoft.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Long Huynh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "REALbasic NUG" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: Why RB for our installer
Since you can do installer in RB, what are the reasons some other people
use other installer like InstallShield.
Do they have to learn yet another scripting language?
Is there a plug-in installer for RB available?
----- Original Message ----
From: Ronald Vogelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: REALbasic NUG <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 3:24:18 PM
Subject: Re: Why RB for our installer
Thanks for the suggestion. here's the Link:
http://www.chilkatsoft.com/ChilkatSfx.asp
Ronald Vogelaar
http://www.rovosoft.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Rathbone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "REALbasic NUG" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: Why RB for our installer
Ronald Vogelaar wrote:
On Windows we're not so lucky.
Just tried again, without any plugins. Create new project, gui
application, immediately build it. Resulting My Application.exe is
3,146,769 bytes.
For those who need to create their own Windows installer in RB, there
are some ways to get around the compiled size. I've created Windows
installers in RB to handle complex tasks that are not handled by most
installer programs (without the use of a scripting language).
When my installer is finished, I create a zip file, which reduces the
size greatly. Then I use a utility like Zip2Secrue.exe (free from
chillkat software) to create a self extracting executable, which
executes my installer upon extraction.
If you give this a try, I think you will find the size of your installer
dramatically reduced.
hth,
Brian
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