Hi Welle,
Thanks for your reply.
I, too, have been using pp + innosetup for many years, so that is not the
problem. BTW my apps are Perl/Wx based.
I was responding to Olivers suggestions to have par handle the file
selection and bundling, and innoset doing the unpacking. I wondered if
anyone ever tried that.
Bonus: Since I usually do not have Windows at my disposal, and no Mac, I'm
often frustrated that I cannot make kits for Windows and Mac on a Linux PC.
It is nothing more or less than collecting a bunch of files...
Regards,
Johan
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:31:04 +0200, welle ozean
<welleoz...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Johan,
>
> no, you are not the only one. I have a fairly complex GUI application for
> Windows and macOS written in Perl and Tcl/Tk (I switched away from Perl/Tk
> a couple of months ago). For Windows, I have been using the combination
> pp+Innosetup for years now, and I am very happy with it (for what it
> matters, I use pp also for the macOS). The advantage of pp is to get
> everything (Perl related part of the application) easily packed in an exe.
> No worries about shipping Perl, setting variables, etc. (which is doable
> of course). It takes a bit of time to load the first time (< 10 secs) you
> run it on the end machine (the exe gets unpacked in the Temp Windows
> folder), after that, however, startup time is reasonably fast (1-2 secs?).
>
> If you need help, let me know exactly what you need, I lost track now...
> Welle
>
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> Am Fr., 24. Apr. 2020 um 21:06 Uhr schrieb Johan Vromans <
> jvrom...@squirrel.nl>:
>
> > Hi Oliver,
> >
> > Thanks for all suggestions.
> >
> > A bit of background: I am 100% linux user/developer. Since Windows
> > people want to run some of my applications and since most Windows users
> > are not capable of installing perl and modules and so on I figured out
> > how to use PAR (pp) and InnoSetup to produce something that is point
> > and click installable and runnable. Even though not optimal I'm glad I
> > could get so far... And users are happy.
> >
> > On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:07:39 +0200, Oliver Betz wrote:
> >
> > > par is good in doing this selection.
> >
> > I know (although PAR is still very quiet about missing modules).
> >
> > > If you already use InnoSetup, the user doesn't even have to deal with
> > > the bunch of files.
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > You know that par under Windows also unpacks Perl plus your code to
> > > the temp directory and runs it there?
> >
> > Gee, really? You must be joking :)
> >
> > See e.g. https://johan.vromans.org/extra/perlapp/pres/index.html
> > and its successor:
> > https://johan.vromans.org/extra/pda2018/pres/index.html
> > > InnoSetup can do this unpacking at least as well.
> >
> > Yes, although this would require me a lot of figuring out...
> >
> > > And you have no performance hit at runtime
> >
> > I perform an 'initial run' as last step in installation, so the app is
> > already unpacked and ready to use.
> >
> > > and a clean uninstall (par often doesn't remove the stuff in the temp
> > >
> > directory).
> >
> > This would be a nice advantage.
> >
> > Am I the only one trying to do this? Are there other PAR/InnoSetup users
> > here that have templates and/or examples?
> >
> > -- Johan
> >
