Successful recreation of maxima 5.5 windows install file (not compile, but install)
Subject: Successful recreation of maxima 5.5 windows install file (not compile, but install)
From: C Y
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 12:46:15 -0800 (PST)
--- James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> wrote:
> Good work. Has anyone tried this package yet? Is the packaging
> something
> that needs to be documented, or is it just a straightforward
> application
> of InnoSetup. I have to confess complete ignorance of Windows
> packaging
> issues.
>
> --Jim
It is reasonably straightforward, if what I've got up there really
works. I haven't heard of anyone else trying it yet, particularly on a
machine that hasn't had maxima installed. There are a
couple fine points that I'll document, and we can include the script
InnoSetup uses in CVS at some point.
Basically, what we will have to do is build a working Maxima, remove
anything you don't want in the install binary, and then compile the
InnoSetup script - sort of like a very elaborate self expanding zip
file, in a way. Which will mean working out what we do and don't
want to include in the binary, but we would have had to do that anyway.
CY
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