Win32Setup - custom VM and app tutorial
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Hi,
there is now a ready made setup for installing pharo on windows. http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/22307/setup_pharo_0.0.0.1.exe It is available in the Win32 Setup section on http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=1299 Far from perfect, but working. Use at your own risk! Additionally you will find a short tutorial below on how to build a custom Pharo VM and distribution for Win32 Systems. It can also help if you want to create a (commercial) application based on pharo. Have fun Torsten ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECTION A - Building a Pharo windows VM ======================================= Since Pharo has its roots in Squeak Smalltalk the Squeak virtual machine is used. These steps allow you build a more "pharoized" virtual machine: - setup the tools environment for compiling the VM as described on [1] - grab the lates Squeak VM sources from [2], here we use the squeak 3.11.2 VM so we download "SqueakVM-Win32-3.11.2-src.zip" - extract it into a directory of your choice - make a parallel copy of directory winbuild and name it "pharobuild" - in the "pharobuild" directory -- delete the three *.ico files from squeak (squeak.ico, squeak2.ico and squeak3.ico) -- copy the pharo.ico file from [3] into the directory -- copy the splash.bmp file from [4] into the directory -- edit "Makefile" with a text editor and set the name of the new VM to "Pharo" in line 12 ("VM = Pharo"), note the uppercase -- rename the file "Squeak.def.in" into "Pharo.def.in" (note the uppercase) -- rename the file "Squeak.rc" into "Pharo.rc" (note the uppercase) -- edit "Pharo.rc" with a text editor and modify all 3 icon definitions to use "pharo.ico" now -- run "make" to build the VM -- you will now find a "Pharo.exe" (with the custom icon) and two external plugins ("FT2Plugin.dll" and "SqueakFFIPrims.dll") in the pharobuild\obj\vm directory SECTION B - Building a pharo distribution ========================================= - create a new directory "pharodist" - copy the "Pharo.exe", "FT2Plugin.dll" and "SqueakFFIPrims.dll" built in section A into this directory - also copy splash.bmp into this directory - download SqueakV39.sources.zip from [5] - extract the file "SqueakV39.sources" from this ZIP right into your "pharodist" directory (make sure you extract it exactly into this folder so you have a "pharodist/SqueakV39.sources" file - Download the latest pharo dev image (here we use pharo0.1-10309dev09.05.3.zip from [6]) and extract it into your "pharodist" directory - from this ZIP you should now extract the *.image file and the *.changes file into your "pharodist" directory (you should now have a "pharodist/pharo0.1-10309dev09.05.3.changes" and "pharodist/pharo0.1-10309dev09.05.3.image") - you can start pharo by dragging the "pharo0.1-10309dev09.05.3.image" onto the "Pharo.exe" file - note that automatically a new file "Pharo.ini" is created in your "pharodist" directory - save the image as "pharo.image" (you should now have a pharo.image and pharo.changes file - delete the old "pharo0.1-10309dev09.05.3.changes" and "pharo0.1-10309dev09.05.3.image" file - if you wish to further customize the application you can set some parameters in the Pharo.ini file (a list of all available parameters can be found at [7]) SECTION C - Building a setup ============================ - copy "Pharo.ico" into the "pharodist" directory - create a file "license.rtf" in the "pharodist" directory and clip the license from pharo-project.org into this file - download and install the free NSIS installer package, here we use version 2.42 from [8] - also download the file "ZIPDLL.zip" plugin from [9] - Extract ZipDLL.dll to directory "Plugins" in your NSIS installation - Extract ZipDLL.nsh to directory "Include" in your NSIS installation - copy the file "setup.nsi" file (attached to this mail) to your "pharodist" directory and compile it using NSIS (right click on the file and select "Compile NSIS script" from the context menu - you should now have a "setup_pharo_0.0.0.1.exe" ready for distribution - easy, istnt it? Things to improve: ================== - better looking icons for pharo exe (with transparency) - setup script with custom header on the installer wizard (MUI_HEADERIMAGE_BITMAP, etc) - setup script with installer and uninstaller icons (MUI_ICON, MUI_UNICON) - better version schema - automated build on a build machine (if someone has a windows box accessible from the web tell us) - ... [1] http://www.squeakvm.org/win32/compiling.html [2] http://www.squeakvm.org/win32/release [3] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/2009-May/008513.html [4] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/2009-May/008559.html [5] http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/4621/SqueakV39.sources.zip [6] http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/22298/pharo0.1-10309dev09.05.3.zip [7] http://www.squeakvm.org/win32/settings.html [8] http://nsis.sourceforge.net [9] http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ZipDLL -- Neu: GMX FreeDSL Komplettanschluss mit DSL 6.000 Flatrate + Telefonanschluss für nur 17,95 Euro/mtl.!* http://dslspecial.gmx.de/freedsl-surfflat/?ac=OM.AD.PD003K11308T4569a _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project |
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