Portable App Development

I was wondering how do u make one exe in nsis that would contain all the necessary files to run? I have read in forums that this can be done but I have not found an answer on how to do it. It would be awesome to know how to do this for personal use. If somebody here knows the basics on how to do this, I would appreciate any help you can give me. Thanks for any answers I recieve.

this code handles 1 registry key only and works:

;Copyright (C) 2004-2008 John T. Haller

;Website: http://PortableApps.com/TrillianPortable

;This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software.
;OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.

;This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
;modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
;as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
;of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

What do i have to add into this .nsi file so it wont say invalid command GetRoot?

thanks.

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Name

PTC Splashscreen Template

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Splashscreen

Hello,

I use applications from PortableApps.com since years, but since the combination of some portable apps I have some path problems.
I dislike the default path structure with:

PortableDrive:\
+\PortableApps\
+\AnyApplicationPortable\

My path structure is like this

PortableDrive:\
+\Software\
+\AnyApplication\

If you use portable applications like WinSCP with PUTTY/Notepad++ integration it will not work. Thats why I suggest a *new* ini file in the PortableApps folder (or folder Software). This ini file should store the path to the application directory:

I was minding my own business, compiling UP ME with a nenw feature, but the compiler was reporting this error:

include: "E:\PortableApps\NSISPortable\App\NSIS\Include\Registry.nsh"
!define: "registry::Open" already defined!
!include: error in script: "E:\PortableApps\NSISPortable\App\NSIS\Include\Registry.nsh" on line 1
Error in script "C:\Documents and Settings\all\Desktop\Casey\Development\UP ME\Other\UP ME.nsi" on line 82 -- aborting creation process

I was thinking, "What the heck!? This never happened once before!"

is there any way to edit a .dat file from nsis or possibly another scripting language? i know it depends on the .dat file. the one i'm interested in when opened with notepad is mostly a bunch of gibberish, but the string i want to edit shows up correctly.

WindowFunc header file. Window (not MS Windows) related functions.

Download WindowFunc.nsh

${WinWait}
Waits for a window to exist by title or PID (title optional, partial title accepted; PID required) and optional class (full classname required if used). Can specify a timeout value. Returns -1 if timed out, or the window handle if successful.

${WinWaitVisible}

This solution is for portable version of XAMPP wih installed CMS (such as Joomla!) that use absolute path.

I'm working on a small program that I would like to make have portable support. I'm wondering how best to do this. I would like to make it in such a way that a portable version for MSW, Mac, and even Linux could be installed on a USB/external device.