About a year ago I was combing the web looking for a way to package a PHP-gtk project into a standard Windows installer, you know, double-click on setup.exe and everything takes care of itself.
All the gtk work I’ve seen up till now depends on the user being technical enough to install PHP and the gtk libraries, not good from a market penetration point of view for PHP. One vital missing link that PHP currently suffers from is the inability to create easilly installable, standalone apps that non-technical computer users can download and fire up. Like VB apps, or cpu-throttling java applets.
Well now, apparently, all that has changed, with the emergence of Nova, a napster-like fileshareing app written in PHP-gtk by aragorn@gamer.net.nz
Needless to say you do not need PHP installed on your system to run this, and the setup is so easy I think my mother could manage it 😉
March 4th, 2003 at 7:42 am
What about information/links etc to find the tools to create such stand-alones?
March 4th, 2003 at 9:13 am
here is the site that has the software to create these installers:
Nullsoft Installer System
Enjoy!
March 8th, 2003 at 3:24 am
I use the nullsoft installer you can download it from here:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/
What it does is take a \"nullsoft installer\" script file (.nsi) and compiles it to en executable for you.
To make the installer you edit the script file (although there are some front end GUIs to make the install script but they are quite crappy).
However there is a template generator here:
http://www.firehose.net/free/nsis/makensitemplate.phtml
Doucmentation comes with the download, its very similar to VB and quite easy to pick up the syntax they use.
— aragorn@gamer.net.nz