Re: gnustep-make roadmap

[Jeremy Bettis]

This is simplistic, but should do the job for an application that has only 
one exe file and depends on gnustep-base.
Requires InnoSetup + Preprocessor.  (Download at http://www.innosetup.com)

To compile installer as part of make add this command to Makefile:
iscc myniftysetup.iss

--- cut here : myniftysetup.iss ---

[Setup]
AppName=My Nifty App
AppVerName=My Nifty App 1.0
AppPublisher=The Nifty Company, Inc.
AppPublisherURL=http://www.example.com
AppSupportURL=http://www.example.com
AppUpdatesURL=http://www.example.com
DefaultDirName={pf}\NiftyComp\NiftyApp
DefaultGroupName=My Nifty App
AppCopyright=Copyright © 2005 The Nifty Company, Inc.

[Tasks]
Name: desktopicon; Description: Create a &desktop icon; GroupDescription: 
Additional icons:
Name: quicklaunchicon; Description: Create a &Quick Launch icon; 
GroupDescription: Additional icons:; Flags: unchecked

[Files]
; My Nifty Stuff
Source: shared_obj\niftyapp.exe; DestDir: {app}; Flags: ignoreversion
; GNUSTEP stuff
Source: {#=GetEnv("GNUSTEP_ROOT")}\System\Tools\gnustep-base.dll; DestDir: 
{app}; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: {#=GetEnv("GNUSTEP_ROOT")}\System\Tools\libxml2-2.dll; DestDir: 
{app}; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: {#=GetEnv("GNUSTEP_ROOT")}\System\Tools\objc.dll; DestDir: {app}; 
Flags: ignoreversion

[Icons]
Name: {group}\My Nifty App; Filename: {app}\niftyapp.exe;
Name: {commondesktop}\My Nifty App; Filename: {app}\niftyapp.exe; Tasks: 
desktopicon
Name: {commonappdata}\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\My Nifty App; 
Filename: {app}\niftyapp.exe; Tasks: quicklaunchicon

[Run]
Filename: {app}\niftyapp.exe; Description: Launch My Nifty App; Flags: 
nowait postinstall skipifsilent




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nicola Pero" <address@hidden>
To: "Jeremy Bettis" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: gnustep-make roadmap


> > > * better support for Windows, including framework support for Windows
> > > (patches pending from Jeremy, my fault for not having found the time to
> > > study and apply them yet) ... and potentially some sort of 
> > > auto-packaging
> > > of Windows applications if I ever get the time to study that matter
> > > [this second is unlikely]
> >
> > You speak of auto-packaging for windows applications.  Windows installers
> > are so easy to create with InnoSetup, that it might not be worth doing 
> > that.
> > How about I send you a sample innosetup file that could get put into some
> > FAQ somewhere on the gnustep.org web site and we call it good.
>
> Excellent - thanks! :-)
>
> I'm totally ignorant of Windows installers, just thought it would be an
> area worth exploring.
>
> Some sort of documentation about how to set up Windows installers for
> GNUstep applications using a good Windows tool would definitely be great!
>
> We can stick that somewhere in gnustep-make's documentation.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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