Hi, I have seen a few Linux application that have standalone executables that are installation programs. Once run, it installs the application in the appropriate directory location, can run as root or normal user and creates a desktop and Application menu icon. Similar to Windows's setup.exe idea. An example of such a Linux application is 'installpixel32' from the Pixel32 project, or Kylix 3 installation.
* How does one create such a standalone application? * How do you include the application executable and other resources (text, image, sound files etc) inside such an installation executable? I'm trying to create (mainly for our company, but probably open-source in the end) such a standalone setup creation for our projects. This way it will be Linux distro independent. I also don't want to go the route of projects like AutoPackage that first requires a setup runtime to be installed. I want a installation file like what Pixel32 did. One installation executable without any installation runtime etc. and after the installation, I can simply click on 'uninstall' or run 'setup -u' and a graphical uninstaller is launched. I'm going to look at Loki Games's setup program to see if I can port it to fpGUI Toolkit, or at least get some ideas of how to create such a setup application. Basically I'm trying to create a "InstallShield Lite" but for Linux. :-) The nice thing of Loki Games is that it run run as a console installation or a GUI installation - again, no idea how they managed that, but it was possible (Kylix 3 installation did that). Anybody have pointers or internet links I can read up on the subject? -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal