<div>I don't have that much experience in windows but I have used cpack and nsis to make a single click exe for other qt applications, I would expect that if you hacked around with nsis/cpack you could do the same no matter compiler you use.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Mike Jackson <<a href="mailto:imikejackson@gmail.com">imikejackson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I can _compile_ paraview just fine. I need to deploy to users who do<br>NOT have admin rights on their machines. This necessitates a Drag and<br>
drop installation, which you can do with MSVC2003.net because you can<br>simply put the c runtime libraries next to the executable and you are<br>good to do. With VS2005, MS introduced versioning with their c runtime<br>libs and now you can not simply put the c runtime libs next to the<br>
executable. Your uses have to run some "redistributable.exe" thing<br>first, which requires admin rights on the local machine.<br><br><a href="http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?postid=261" target="_blank">http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?postid=261</a> explains in painstaking<br>
detail the problems.<br><br>A while ago when I tried to compile HDF5 with MinGW there were lots of<br>problems. I don't know if those have been solved by the paraview<br>group, which is what prompted me to ask before I spend days trying to<br>
get something to work that just wont.<br><br>Thanks<br><font color="#888888">Mike<br></font>
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br>On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Robert Maynard<br><<a href="mailto:robertjmaynard@gmail.com">robertjmaynard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> You could use cmake and cpack to make a custom exe that includes all<br>
> your changes on a single machine and then distribute that. I have<br>> compiled Paraview in VS2005 without problem<br>><br>><br>> Mike Jackson wrote:<br>> > is anyone using MinGW to compile ParaView cvs? Turns out I only have<br>
> > the Standard version of VS2003.net so there is no optimization<br>> > allowed. I am thinking of alternatives. I have VS2005 Pro except I<br>> > really need something that can produce a drag and drop installation.<br>
> > Our users do not have local admin on their machines to use an actual<br>> > installer.<br>> ><br>> > Any comments are most welcome.<br>> ><br>> > Thanks<br>> ><br></div></div>
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