Re: [Pharo-users] MSI packaging for Pharo

2013-08-29 Thread p...@highoctane.be
happy to have been of help. phil On Thursday, August 29, 2013, Usman Bhatti usman.bha...@gmail.com wrote: After all, I achieved the creation of MSI with the combination of Inno setup and MSI wrapper. Inno setup allows creating a setup.exe from a build script and do several types of tasks at

Re: [Pharo-users] MSI packaging for Pharo

2013-08-28 Thread Usman Bhatti
Tx all. That's some useful information. As my requirement is a MSI file, I'll try to use WIX or MSI wrapper. I'll let you know how my experience goes. regards, Usman On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:34 AM, p...@highoctane.be p...@highoctane.bewrote: You can also use Inno Setup which is nice, easy,

Re: [Pharo-users] MSI packaging for Pharo

2013-08-27 Thread p...@highoctane.be
You can also use Inno Setup which is nice, easy, and free. http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php#features But ok, it doesn't do MSI. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6245260/installers-wix-or-inno-setup But you can get around that with http://www.exemsi.com/inno-setup-and-msi Good luck.

[Pharo-users] MSI packaging for Pharo

2013-08-26 Thread Usman Bhatti
Hello, Does anyone have experience of distributing Pharo-based software as an MSI installer package to be installed by clients? I would particularly like to know the tool that was used to create the MSI. regards, Usman Bhatti

Re: [Pharo-users] MSI packaging for Pharo

2013-08-26 Thread Usman Bhatti
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Stéphane Ducasse stephane.duca...@inria.fr wrote: Hello, Does anyone have experience of distributing Pharo-based software as an MSI installer package to be installed by clients? what is an MSI? Microsoft installer, a packaging for windows-based

Re: [Pharo-users] MSI packaging for Pharo

2013-08-26 Thread Robert Shiplett
We used to do this routinely with VisualWorks app's back when building for Mac and Windows - the start menu is usually what a client wants ... ( pre-Retro/Metro Win 8 ;-) On 26 August 2013 17:29, Usman Bhatti usman.bha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Stéphane Ducasse

Re: [Pharo-users] MSI packaging for Pharo

2013-08-26 Thread Hernán Morales Durand
I have never tried but it seems you can wrap installer in MSI files using WiX http://wixtoolset.org/ and this package http://www.exemsi.com/ To write the installer check this out: http://code.google.com/p/biosmalltalk/wiki/NSISInstallerScript Hernán El 26/08/2013 17:29, Usman Bhatti