software-distribution

On my MacOSX I've developed an application that makes use of Qt and VTK libraries. I generate the makefile using CMake. Now I want to compile an end-user self-contained package on Windows, and it is supposed to work on end-user machine without needing to pre-install Qt or VTK libraries. I think is possible to do this by modifying the CMakeLists.txt file but a web search hasn't pointed me the right direction. How to make a distributable package for Windows using CMake? André What I have done in one of my own projects is write a little script which will give me the .so files or .dll files from

I've created a little Windows app that uses the ImageMagick C API but have run into a bit of a brick wall. The app works fine and I'm ready to share it with a few others in our organisation but I can't find documentation on distributing such an app without installing ImageMagick on the target machine. Does anyone here have information, or a link to information, that details how to package this up for distribution? What DLLs are required and which one(s) need to registered with Windows? The target users will be on a mix of XP and Win7. I had to do something similar, though I built Imagemagick

This is not strictly programming related, but I hope still relevant. I'm working on a project which is written in Java and intended for use on PCs and Macs. It will be distributed on CD (and perhaps DVD, eventually). Our intended audience is decidedly non-technical and, as such, it's important the CD "just work" when it's loaded. This is not itself difficult. For Windows, we can setup Autorun to automatically launch the app and, for Mac, we can use special folder formatting to make it clear what the user should do. The hitch is that we would like to ship one disc which could be used on either

I created a simple Gradle build that exports the contents of ./src/main/groovy to a zip file. The zip file contains a folder with the exact same name as the zip file. I cannot figure out how to get the files into the root of the zip file using the distribution plugin. i.e. gradlew clean distZip produces: helloDistribution-1.0.zip -> helloDistribution-1.0 -> files what I would like: helloDistribution-1.0.zip -> files My build.gradle file: apply plugin: 'groovy' apply plugin: 'distribution' version = '1.0' distributions { main { contents { from { 'src/main/groovy' } } } } I have attempted to fix

I'm developing my first Python distribution package. My learning curve on Python packaging seems to be leveling off a bit, but I'm still wrestling with a few open questions. One is whether I should cause my unit tests to be installed alongside my code. I understand it's important to include tests in a source distribution . What I'm wondering is whether I should actually configure them to be installed? I've seen at least one popular package that appears to do this on purpose ( PyHamcrest ), and at least one other that appears to do it by accident ( behave ). So my (multi-part) question is this: