Hi, I've been playing with NSIS for a few days now, and am trying to portablize an app that I would like to carry around with me on my flash drive.
I need some suggestions/leads on how to handle DLLs by the app in question. I found that putting all the DLLs in the app's directory seemed to work fine. Is that acceptable practice? Or should I have it in a separate directory and have the .NSI file tell the launcher where to find it?
Also, there is a specific file being used by the app to hold the apps' settings but it's not so simple to edit.. is there a way to export it to another directory and have the launcher call it or move it back and forth? and how can I run a call to change the settings so that it's not drive locked like C:\NARF or D:\NARF but make sure its like %DRIVE%\ wherever it is..
I'm sorry if I'm not being clear but I hope someone out there can help me.. the NSIS documentation isn't very good at helping to portablize stuff...
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like dlls when you compile like "ProcKill"? thats compiled into the EXE! check ure temp directory (%temp%) these Dlls will be extracted there the NSIS compiler does all of this for you. so u dont have to carry it around. Hope This Helps!
Slackware 12 for system
MCP (For XP and Server 2003)
Network + Certified
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Compiled into the .EXE?
Seems nothing gets compiled into the .EXE actually. It's just a launcher to a program that users will eventually have to download and extract into the portableapps\appdir\app\theappinquestion
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