Windows Installers

[milo christiansen]

I thought I heard (saw ) one of the dev say that windows installers cant be compiled on windows, why? or do I have this wrong?

[cybersphinx]

"Can't be done" is usually incorrect, but short for "nobody of us knows how to do it".

[Zarel]

Well, not just "don't know how to do bit" but also "would require rewriting the build scripts".

[milo christiansen]

Where can I get the scripts? If the answer is svn can someone email them to me?
I don't have internet at home and the computer I use can't/wont run an svn client.
My email is:
[email protected]

You do use NSIS right?

[Zarel]

http://developer.wz2100.net/browser

You don't need an SVN client to browse SVN. And I refuse to believe your computer seriously can't run an SVN client. What's the problem with it? What sort of error messages are you encountering?

[milo christiansen]

It's a library computer With 1 shared dsl line for 8 computers most of which have kids listening to music or playing runescape, so downloads are slow, access to the console is blocked, and you can't install anything, so if you have a portable svn client that has a gui can I have a link to it please.

[crux]

he gave you the link so you don't need a client

[Zarel]

It's a library computer With 1 shared dsl line for 8 computers most of which have kids listening to music or playing runescape, so downloads are slow, access to the console is blocked, and you can't install anything, so if you have a portable svn client that has a gui can I have a link to it please.

http://developer.wz2100.net/browser

I gave you a link to a portable SVN client right there in my post....

[milo christiansen]

Yes but how do you download files with that? I can look at files all day but you cant say "I want dir X and all its contents downloaded to here" as far as I can see.

The main reason I want the NSIS scripts is so I can make them compile on windows and so I can make a portable installer/launcher without having to write it from scratch.

[cybersphinx]

Use http://warzone2100.svn.sourceforge.net/ ... rzone2100/, that has a "download tarball" link for every folder (including subfolders).

[milo christiansen]

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I can get the latest trunk data set maybe!

[dmkp]

Weird... because I used an installer to install 2.3.

Edit: or 2.2 whichever it were :p

[milo christiansen]

Are these scripts meant to be run from a command line or what?

There are a whole bunch of symbols for which there is no !define.

[crux]

Are these scripts meant to be run from a command line or what?

There are a whole bunch of symbols for which there is no !define.

they are read by the nsis installer maker program

[i-NoD]

Are these scripts meant to be run from a command line or what?

There are a whole bunch of symbols for which there is no !define.

To compile this script as is, you'll need to setup a MinGW environment as it described in Windows_Compile_Guide_(MinGW) section.

For your task of portable installation, I'd wouldn't bother with nsis: just unpack(by installing it or by un7zipping) any official WZ package from sf.net, add whatever bat/launcher.exe you would use and simply zip the whole folder. Use sfx if you need.