GNU Smalltalk Windows Installer (Beta)

Hello,

I prepared an experimental Windows installer for GNU Smalltalk. It installs
version 3.0b to your computer with Blox package. Other packages are not
installed. It is supposed to add gst.exe and gst-blox.exe to your Path
environment variable but it may not so you may need to add them by yourself.

You can download it from:

http://www.canol.info/smalltalk/setup.exe

As I said it is just experimental and aims beginner users who are not able to
compile GST with MinGW as it is a little hard. The directory structure it
creates is little bit ugly.

Known issues:

 - Sometimes it does not set the path environment variable.
 - It does not remove the gst path from path environment variable.
 - gst.exe crashes whenever your program has errors.
 - Although it is spyware-free (tested in Ultimate Canol Gökel Labs), I am not
responsible for any other harm to your computer.

I hope it will be useful for the Windows users.



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> I prepared an experimental Windows installer for GNU Smalltalk. It installs
> version 3.0b to your computer with Blox package. Other packages are not
> installed. It is supposed to add gst.exe and gst-blox.exe to your Path
> environment variable but it may not so you may need to add them by yourself.

Is this really necessary?  Does everything totally break if the programs
are not in the path?  Creating start-menu items should be enough.

Paolo


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Paolo Bonzini <bonzini <at> gnu.org> writes:

>
> Is this really necessary?  Does everything totally break if the programs
> are not in the path?  Creating start-menu items should be enough.
>
> Paolo
>


No, actually it is working fine but it is very convenient to use GST when
environment variables are set so that you can type "gst" to run GST or "gst
your-script-path" to run your script.

It is currently not creating start menu items but it is a good idea. I will try
to update the installer to have it create start menu items for starting gst.exe
and uninstaller.



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