Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2017-11-06 04:04, Flávio Etrusco wrote:

AFAICS it would require quite a few enhancements (and modifications to
the user scripts) to abstract away per-machine vs per-user
declarations in InnoSetup.


I can't see why you think that. I used the unpack tool Michael 
suggested, and unpacked the official Windows FPC installer. The unpacked 
layout was as if they zipped the FPC distribution after it was built 
(compiled). All I had to do was generate a fpc.cfg file and modify the 
paths inside to match my Windows laptop. FPC 3.0.2 now runs perfectly 
from my severely limited user account's home directory.


Such flexibility really should come as standard with every installer - 
always give the user the option to install system wide, or per user or 
"portable". The EditPad Pro (commercial text editor) has been doing it 
for years. So much so, everybody found their installer so useful it 
became a spin-off commercial product on its own. Editpad Pro's single 
install executable allows installing 32-bit or 64-bit versions of the 
editor; if it should be installed system wide, per user or "usb 
portable". Oh, and there installer runs on Win98 all the way to Win10 - 
no artificial limitations like InnoSetup (can't install on XP or older).


  https://www.editpadpro.com/
  https://www.deploymaster.com/


Regards,
  Graeme

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Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

[Flávio Etrusco]

Hi,

2017-11-02 17:54 GMT-02:00 Graeme Geldenhuys :
> On 2017-11-02 07:17, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>
>> The installer is made with inno setup. There are several inno extract
>> tools
>> available, e.g.:
>> http://constexpr.org/innoextract/
>
>
> Thank you Michael, that worked perfectly. Strange that the inno setup
> executable (the FPC installer) doesn't have a parameter to do that itself. I
> have seen installers in the past that allows for that, but I don't know what
> program they used to generate that installer.

Microsoft Installer (oops, now Windows Installer) implement this
"natively", and I assume most MSI-based generators/packagers support
it.

AFAICS it would require quite a few enhancements (and modifications to
the user scripts) to abstract away per-machine vs per-user
declarations in InnoSetup.
FWIW since InnoSetup is scriptable it seems one can implement this
manually using a few hacks:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21556853/make-inno-setup-installer-request-privileges-elevation-only-when-needed

Best regards,
Flávio
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Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

[Martok]

Am 02.11.2017 um 21:00 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> The FPC team really should consider releasing a Windows binary zip 
> release too. It really wouldn't be any extra effort as they already prep 
> everything for Inno Setup, so a simply ZIP command is all that would be 
> needed.

In case you don't need a release version (or the other way around, want a trunk
version), you may also want to have a look at my ~weekly snapshots at
. They're all just plain 7zip
archives, and a .cmd to create the fpc.cfg. The directory structure is the same
as from the installer, so you can mix & match.


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Regards,
Martok

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Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2017-11-02 11:30, Bart wrote:

For commandline compilen (and building Lazarus from console) it's
preferrable to have fpc's bin directory in the path (and you need
admin privileges for that).


If you use ConEmu [https://conemu.github.io/] - an alternative console 
for Windows, it allows you to set up environment variables for each 
session without requiring admin access. ConEmu is a 100x better than the 
default Windows Command Prompt, and it has tons of other features too. I 
run Git Bash, Default Console, PowerShell and more all via ConEmu.


Regards,
  Graeme

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Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2017-11-02 10:31, James Richters wrote:

I'm curious if it really needs to be installed?


FPC and Lazarus can run just fine without an installer. In fact, that is 
how I've been running FPC and Lazarus under Linux and FreeBSD for the 
last 10 years. The problem under Windows was that I couldn't get hold of 
a v3.0.2 FPC binary. The only Windows installer for FPC requires admin 
rights to run, which I couldn't do on my work laptop.


But now that Michael mentioned the Inno Setup Unpacking tool, I managed 
to unpack the setup. Now I can copy that to my home folder setup the 
fpc.cfg and then go from there (compile fpGUI, compile Lazarus etc.).


The FPC team really should consider releasing a Windows binary zip 
release too. It really wouldn't be any extra effort as they already prep 
everything for Inno Setup, so a simply ZIP command is all that would be 
needed.


Regards,
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Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2017-11-02 07:17, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

The installer is made with inno setup. There are several inno extract tools
available, e.g.:
http://constexpr.org/innoextract/


Thank you Michael, that worked perfectly. Strange that the inno setup 
executable (the FPC installer) doesn't have a parameter to do that 
itself. I have seen installers in the past that allows for that, but I 
don't know what program they used to generate that installer.





You can use that to extract the files to any location you want.
A fast USB3 for a portable installation seems like a good idea.


Yes, that was my plan as well. With FPC and Lazarus it is pretty easy to 
run everything stand-alone from a USB stick.



Regards,
  Graeme

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Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

[Bart]

On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 11:31 AM, James Richters
 wrote:
> I'm curious if it really needs to be installed?

For commandline compilen (and building Lazarus from console) it's
preferrable to have fpc's bin directory in the path (and you need
admin privileges for that).
Otherwise just copying the entire fpc folder (and adjusting fpc.cfg)
should be enough for running and building from Lazarus.
(Did that on Win98, because the fpc installer needs XP or higher)

Bart
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Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

[James Richters]

I'm curious if it really needs to be installed?  I installed it on my desktop 
computer then just copied the entire FPC directory to my NAS, then went to my 
laptop where FPC was never installed, mapped a drive to access the FPC copy on 
the NAS and ran it, and everything seems fine to me.I have even put the 
entire thing on a USB hard drive and plugged it into customers computers and 
made source adjustments then recompiled the program and had no problems at 
all I certainly would never have my source code on their hard drive... and 
I never install anything on their computer.

Maybe this is just something I get away with because my source code and FPC are 
on the same drive or NAS share and I use relative paths in fp.ini for FU like 
-Fu..\..\FPC\3.0.4rc1\units\$fpctarget\* and I also usually have a batch file 
in with my source code that just calls FPC with a relative path like  
..\..\FPC\3.0.4rc1\bin\FPC %1 %2 %3 %4   It's just something I always have done 
since turbo pascal,  which I also never installed,  just copied the TP 
directory wherever I wanted to run it.

Anyway.. I run FPC all over the place and never "install" it.

James

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Subject: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

Hi,

I have a severely locked down laptop (work one) so I can't install anything 
that creates menu shortcuts, desktop icons or goes into "Program Files". So I 
can't run the official Windows FPC installer. I don't actually know what is the 
requirement in Windows to trigger the "admin rights" dialog - but the official 
FPC installer does trigger it, so I can't use it.

Is there a way to unpack the installer so I can manually install FPC in my home 
folder? Or is there some other lesser known official Windows installer I could 
use. eg: the FPC Linux installer doesn't require root access. Is there a 
Windows FPC installer that uses the same installer as Linux or FreeBSD? A 
console installer?

I managed to track down a very old FPC 2.6.0 bundled with Lazarus v1 in a 
"portable application" installer. This worked, but it's very old. I guess I 
would go through the tedious process of compiling each FPC release myself 
starting with the 2.6.0 fpc.exe I have - but if there is a faster way, I would 
obviously prefer that.

Regards,
   Graeme

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Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:


Hi,

I have a severely locked down laptop (work one) so I can't install 
anything that creates menu shortcuts, desktop icons or goes into 
"Program Files". So I can't run the official Windows FPC installer. I 
don't actually know what is the requirement in Windows to trigger the 
"admin rights" dialog - but the official FPC installer does trigger it, 
so I can't use it.


Is there a way to unpack the installer so I can manually install FPC in 
my home folder? Or is there some other lesser known official Windows 
installer I could use. eg: the FPC Linux installer doesn't require root 
access. Is there a Windows FPC installer that uses the same installer as 
Linux or FreeBSD? A console installer?


I managed to track down a very old FPC 2.6.0 bundled with Lazarus v1 in 
a "portable application" installer. This worked, but it's very old. I 
guess I would go through the tedious process of compiling each FPC 
release myself starting with the 2.6.0 fpc.exe I have - but if there is 
a faster way, I would obviously prefer that.


The installer is made with inno setup. There are several inno extract tools
available, e.g.:
http://constexpr.org/innoextract/

You can use that to extract the files to any location you want. 
A fast USB3 for a portable installation seems like a good idea.


Michael.
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[fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Hi,

I have a severely locked down laptop (work one) so I can't install 
anything that creates menu shortcuts, desktop icons or goes into 
"Program Files". So I can't run the official Windows FPC installer. I 
don't actually know what is the requirement in Windows to trigger the 
"admin rights" dialog - but the official FPC installer does trigger it, 
so I can't use it.


Is there a way to unpack the installer so I can manually install FPC in 
my home folder? Or is there some other lesser known official Windows 
installer I could use. eg: the FPC Linux installer doesn't require root 
access. Is there a Windows FPC installer that uses the same installer as 
Linux or FreeBSD? A console installer?


I managed to track down a very old FPC 2.6.0 bundled with Lazarus v1 in 
a "portable application" installer. This worked, but it's very old. I 
guess I would go through the tedious process of compiling each FPC 
release myself starting with the 2.6.0 fpc.exe I have - but if there is 
a faster way, I would obviously prefer that.


Regards,
  Graeme

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