Windows Installer?

[Simon Dible]

> >  There's clearly makefiles&  scripts files in the repo you cloned on
> >  github that mentions nsis.
> >  The file makensis expects a tarball with perl etc in it but I don't
> >  know the exact contents.
> >  It might just be a tarball distro of Strawberry perl.
> >  
> >  Any clues on this would be great.
> >  
> >  JOOI Who built the current Windows installer?
> >  Are they on this list?
> >  
> >  TIA
> >  
> >  -R
> >  
> >  _______________________________________________
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> >  get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> >  http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
> >  
The tar is Strawberry Perl just as a tarball, and the Makefile just 
pulls the files out out the tar, as David said, this is based on a list 
which I got by compiling the script with PAR::Packer

If you want to do it yourself, get the latest get_iplayer script, 
install Strawberry Perl with the windows installer from the Strawberry 
Perl site. Then open a command line (with Perl in the path) type
         cpan install PAR::Packer
I think that's the command anyway, you might need to Google it. This 
installs lots of dependencies like mingw just keep saying yes.
After that is all done type the following where get_iplayer is in your 
current directory and Perl is in your path.
         pp get_iplayer -o get_iplayer.exe

This makes a single executable of the get_iplayer script called 
get_iplayer.exe that can be run from the command line with nothing else 
needed, its actually a zip file with get_iplayer in it, along with all 
the Strawberry Perl files needed (and no more). You can open/extract the 
exe with 7zip make a list of the files you need and there you go! The 
reason for striping the files  from the tar means the build machine 
doesn't need pp installed, or even need to be windows, previously it 
mean get_iplayer --update worked on windows as the script could 
overwrite its self..

As far as NSIS goes, you just need all the files you want in the correct 
directories and compile away.

Does that answer your question?
Simon