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1251 :: Bootstrapping Nim on Microsoft

• cy (orginal) [2015-05-22T10:51:43+02:00] view original

  Couldn't render post #7712.

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• Araq (orginal) [2015-05-22T11:21:02+02:00] view original

  Here is what you should do:

  • Install Wine.
  • Install the 32 bit version of Nim for Windows via the installer we provide; that one already installs Mingw and if you select Aporia also GTK DLLs.
  • Compile via Wine on your precious Linux OS to produce some .exe that you can actually run and test on your machine.
  • Give your friends this .exe plus the couple of DLLs that your program requires. You can zip these files, Windows users can unzip nowadays. Alternatively you can also produce installers via niminst.

  Shipping working binaries to Windows users from Linux is easier than shipping working binaries to Linux from Linux. :P

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• cy (orginal) [2015-05-22T11:30:14+02:00] view original

  Oh right, wine... forgot that was a thing. Ugh, 32 bit emulation, 4 gigabyte address space, no code generation...

  Maybe I'll try to figure out that niminst thing.

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• Varriount (orginal) [2015-05-22T18:56:54+02:00] view original

  So, essentially, you want a silent installer? That can be done, although if you wanted to use the current installer code, you would need to add in some logic to sort out silent vs non-silent install modes.

  If you want, you could just create a set-up directory of Nim and all it's bells/whistles on your own computer, then zip it up along with a batch script, and have them execute it.

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• cy (orginal) [2015-05-22T23:32:01+02:00] view original

  Silent installer? You might be onto something there... in fact I think the Nim installer is NSIS so has command line arguments for silent mode, and specifying an install directory... wonder if that works.

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• jibal (orginal) [2015-05-23T03:36:05+02:00] view original

  Chocolatey might be a possibility: https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki

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