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Installers for projects #33
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Update on Linux GUI packaging:
Again, this is all simple bash scripting, but it would put the binary where we want it and a Desktop file in the right place so the system can find our GUI. |
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For macOS - just a note for myself:
This is currently in development on the |
One enhancement I really want for
box
is the capability of not just creating packages, but also to create installers. This would be especially interesting for GUIs.The idea is to include a next
box installer
top-level command to directly create the installers on various platforms.This issue is definitely not well thought out yet and any comments/ideas would be highly appreciated!
Linux:
Package the program into an AppImage for GUIs?
For CLIs: An installer bash script that simply copies the binary to a specified folder and makes it executable.
Windows:
On windows, NSIS can be used to package a nice looking installer fairly automatically. This will require that NSIS is installed on the windows machine, but then, it should work fairly straight forward.
For CLIs on windows, I don't really have an idea yet :)
macos:
applecrate looks very interesting to package CLIs.
For GUIs: Create a
dmg
file somehow... well, need to think about this more.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: