Portable App Development

Can someone please give me a complete step by step tutorial to build a portable application using NSIS. I know how to get all the program files and the registry entries which the program uses but want to know in detail how create and compile the NSIS script and create a launcher using the PortableApps.comLauncherGenerator.

I have searched a lot over the internet and also in these forums but none of the tutorials are satisfactory. I also didn't understand the content given in the development section of this website.

Hi,
I have ported the Mana client from http://www.manasource.org & another similar game client from http://tmw.cetki.com/4144 to PortableApps.com format

I have uploaded the installer at http://manaportable.googlecode.com . Icons & splash screen yet need be upgraded. Otherwise it's working fine.
I would be grateful if it's tested, constructively criticized or so. Hoping for an initiative from the admin bodies to try to release it officially in the games-app directory of this website.

I would really like to see a portable C++ compiler. I can not find one on line and would be really happy if i could have one with me whenever i am at a computer instead of just at my home computer.

Name: Free_UPX
Category: Utility: UPX GUI
Description: Frome the web:

Free UPX is an advanced graphical interface for the UPX (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables). It allows you to compress (and decompress) files produced according to Microsoft Portable Executable and COFF Specification (EXE, DLL, OCX, BPL, CPL and other). It offers easy access to all documented and undocumented UPX parameters without the need for command line usage. Learn more about Free_UPX.

I think it will be good to see a file structure system where we could put folders inside the portable apps folder and we could put our apps in them and access them from the portable apps menu. Much like the Windows start menu.

What do you all think about this?

If you go to these sites:

http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download/portable
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/portable
http://www.piriform.com/defraggler/download/portable
http://www.piriform.com/speccy/download/portable

you get them FREE and they are legal

so what you do with all 4 is:
open them with WIN-rar or such a program, put it in your L:\PortableApps (or, you could put in a separate folder with in that folder, as I did like L:\PortableApps\ccleaner the drive letter will vary with computer) then open, and use them.

I have Photoshop on my PortableApps platform and it works great. While it's not the up-to-date version, it works great, and it FREE. Here is the site to get it:

[Link to illegal software removed by mod JTH. Please refrain from linking to illegal software again]

Hi folks,

in this post we had a discussion on how to set file type associations permanently on a system, so that a "document.doc" file launches my portable software when I click on it.

In addition to the Unicode plug-in test TAKE 2,
I found out that ${registry::RestoreKey} is not waiting to return till the process of restoring the key is finished. Which has the potential to give random results when a .reg file to be restored is a fair size and/or additional registry handling is being done straight after restoring the .reg file(this is what PAL will do if there is more then one key to back-up/delete)!

Hi,

I'm using portable applications for some times and now I would like to try create one by myself.
I read forum posts and text on site but I'm not sure how to do it or from where to start.

Can someone show simple step by step process for single .exe program or point me on right direction.
Putty, Process explorer or something similar.

Thanks.