On 8/9/2012 8:41 AM, Ma Xiaojun wrote:
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Oliver Krystal mr.soup12@gmail.com wrote:
Why is it so inconvient to use the @Drive trick? If you check out the windows paths, they're all specified starting with a drive letter. Linux paths start with root . . .
Well, @Drive trick works perfectly if we put Geany and MinGW in a USB drive and keep their path static. What I want is a folder/archive that can be used in an arbitrary path of Windoze, i.e., a relocatable portable app. Such app is much easier for redistribution.
In general, that's a behavior that isn't supported. It would also make the fixing of configuration files and such break pretty quickly .
Geany Portable is up on github, https://github.com/oliverkrystal/geanyportable if you'd like to take a look at relevant source files they are in Other\Source and written in NSIS. Fork it, fix it, submit a pull request and if I like it I'll use it.
For this to work, I (or someone else picking up Geany Portable) would have to distribute MinGW with Geany Portable. And I haven't been able to get MinGW to work even installed as a regular system application for quite some time. In my experience compiling something with MinGW on windows rarely ends well, if it ends at all!
It sounds like you are unhappy with MinGW. What's the exact problem you met?
It helps to be able to get a functioning install :)
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