Hey All,
I have a couple things I'm going to look into for 0.49. One thing is offering msi installers. The other is potentially providing a native 64bit version as well.
There was recently a discussion, I believe on the gtk list, about using OpenSuse's build service to compile windows binaries. I checked, and indeed there is a 64bit version of Inkscape compiled for Windows as well as all necessary 64bit libs (I have yet to test them, but it's planned for this weekend). It's a little different since they're packed in RPMs and use an "interesting" directory structure. However, I bet with a little bit of scripting we could automate all aspects of this and possibly add in re-packaging it and pushing automated nightly builds to modevia.
Thoughts?
Cheers, Josh
Hi Josh,
I also would like to see a msi. This is long awaited and might solve some uninstall issues as well. I was playing with the MS tools wix to create msi.
Adib.
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> wrote:
Hey All,
I have a couple things I'm going to look into for 0.49. One thing is offering msi installers. The other is potentially providing a native 64bit version as well.
There was recently a discussion, I believe on the gtk list, about using OpenSuse's build service to compile windows binaries. I checked, and indeed there is a 64bit version of Inkscape compiled for Windows as well as all necessary 64bit libs (I have yet to test them, but it's planned for this weekend). It's a little different since they're packed in RPMs and use an "interesting" directory structure. However, I bet with a little bit of scripting we could automate all aspects of this and possibly add in re-packaging it and pushing automated nightly builds to modevia.
Thoughts?
Cheers, Josh
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2011/7/29 Josh Andler <scislac@...400...>:
I have a couple things I'm going to look into for 0.49. One thing is offering msi installers.
We would need to change the current NSIS-based installer to WiX. http://wix.sourceforge.net/
The other is potentially providing a native 64bit version as well.
Here the main challenge would be preparing a 64-bit version of devlibs. There are some experimental packages available here. http://www.gtk.org/download/win64.php
Regards, Krzysztof
Awesome, wix is what I was looking at.
A side Q, is anyone aware of what it entails for signing installers on Windows?
Cheers, Josh On Jul 31, 2011 3:08 PM, "Krzysztof Kosiński" <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote:
2011/7/29 Josh Andler <scislac@...400...>:
I have a couple things I'm going to look into for 0.49. One thing is offering msi installers.
We would need to change the current NSIS-based installer to WiX. http://wix.sourceforge.net/
The other is potentially providing a native 64bit version as well.
Here the main challenge would be preparing a 64-bit version of devlibs. There are some experimental packages available here. http://www.gtk.org/download/win64.php
Regards, Krzysztof
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