Hi Torsten -

I very much like the idea in general but I'm having some doubts about 
feasibility. I'm not sure if I've asked this already but in modern 
Windows environment the installation location is read only. In other 
words, if you're installing this into C:\Program Files\ you may not be 
able to save/saveAs, you may not be able to write files, you may not be 
able to launch external editors etc. Have you tested any of that?

I do know that Windows has some whacky rules about the install locations 
(i.e., it actually has a shadow directory with files modified by the 
local user) but in many ways that's worse because it can lead to strange 
inconsistencies (files and changes gone when switching between users) if 
you're using it with the assumptions that it's a normal directory.

Cheers,
   - Andreas


On 3/24/2010 3:11 AM, Torsten Bergmann wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I created a simple "Setup/Installer for Squeak" for Windows similar
> to the one that is provided for Pharo. This allows easy
> installation/deinstallation on Windows without having
> to search all the necessary files from the website.
>
> I have no FTP access on squeak.org to upload the result but is
> easy to rebuild on your own.
>
> See the attached screenshots for the final result
> and the tutorial below how to redo it. Maybe the release
> team wants to use that.
>
> Bye
> T.
>
>
>
>
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> A. Download and install the free NSIS installer package, here we use version 2.42 from [1]
>
> B. Also download the file "ZIPDLL.zip" plugin from [2]
>       - Extract ZipDLL.dll to directory "Plugins" in your NSIS installation
>       - Extract ZipDLL.nsh to directory "Include" in your NSIS installation
>
> C. Create a directory "squeakdist41" on your hard disk
>
> D. Extract the source file from [3] into this the "squeakdist41" directory
>
> E. Extract the latest VM you find at [4] into the "squeakdist41" directory
>      - which is now 3.11.8, so use the ZIP provided in [5]
>
> F. Download the latest image and changes file and again extract it into the "squeakdist41" directory
>      - we use "Squeak4.1-9745-alpha" here, so extract the files found in [6]
>
> G. Extract the attached "Setup_stuff.zip" into the "squeakdist41" directory
>
> E. Adapt the definitions at the top of the provided "setup.nsi" script file
>     (Not needed here, only necessary if you provide other VM versions, images, ...)
>
> F. Compile "setup.nsi" with the NSIS installer and you get a shiny new 10MB installer
>     ("setup_squeak4.1-9745-alpha2010.03.23.exe") to install/remove Squeak from a windows system
>
> G. Put it on ftp.squeak.org (only if you have access, I failed here)
>
> [1] http://nsis.sourceforge.net
> [2] http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ZipDLL
> [3] http://ftp.squeak.org/4.0/SqueakV40.sources.gz
> [4] http://squeakvm.org/win32/
> [5] http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.11.8-bin.zip
> [6] http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/Squeak4.1-9745-alpha.zip
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