[Paraview] MinGW compilation

[Robert Maynard]

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.



On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Mike Jackson <imikejackson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I can _compile_ paraview just fine. I need to deploy to users who do
> NOT have admin rights on their machines. This necessitates a Drag and
> drop installation, which you can do with MSVC2003.net because you can
> simply put the c runtime libraries next to the executable and you are
> good to do. With VS2005, MS introduced versioning with their c runtime
> libs and now you can not simply put the c runtime libs next to the
> executable. Your uses have to run some "redistributable.exe" thing
> first, which requires admin rights on the local machine.
>
> http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?postid=261   explains in painstaking
> detail the problems.
>
> A while ago when I tried to compile HDF5 with MinGW there were lots of
> problems. I don't know if those have been solved by the paraview
> group, which is what prompted me to ask before I spend days trying to
> get something to work that just wont.
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Robert Maynard
> <robertjmaynard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You could use cmake and cpack to make a custom exe that includes all
> > your changes on a single machine and then distribute that.  I have
> > compiled Paraview in VS2005 without problem
> >
> >
> > Mike Jackson wrote:
> > > is anyone using MinGW to compile ParaView cvs? Turns out I only have
> > > the Standard version of VS2003.net so there is no optimization
> > > allowed. I am thinking of alternatives. I have VS2005 Pro except I
> > > really need something that can produce a drag and drop installation.
> > > Our users do not have local admin on their machines to use an actual
> > > installer.
> > >
> > > Any comments are most welcome.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
>
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