Installer advice needed

[Graham Samuel]

Thanks Matthias and Tiemo for good advice. I have had a look at DropDMG which looks very suitable for making a good-looking Mac version as suggested. Again, I’m also looking at Monte’s InstallGadget which looks very promising.

In answer to Tiemo’s query

> What are your problems with installer maker?

I had some issues relating to the Windows side of things, of which the killer was an error (141,546,30) which relates to some decompression issue. As I wasn’t using the Compression option in the installer I found this puzzling but so far have not found an explanation. There was another problem with the license document, where I couldn’t get the program to accept my version rather than the default stub. All this happened nearly two months ago, and I may have forgotten some of the details, but that’s an outline.

Anyway thanks again. I must start to bite the codesigning bullet (groan).

Graham

> On 18 Dec 2014, at 12:09, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D <matthias_livecode_150811 at m-r-d.de> wrote:
> 
> Graham,
> 
> for Windows i am using Monte´s InstallGadget which is based on innosetup, but much easier to use.
> On Mac this tool just creates a dmg.
> 
> http://goulding.ws/installgadget/
> 
> 
> Is there really a need for an installer on Mac? Most of the mac software is delivered as dmg. The user just has to drag the app bundle or app folder to the Application folder.
> 
> If you want to graphically pimp your dmg then i would try DropDMG. Very easy to use and very good results.
> http://c-command.com/dropdmg/
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 18.12.2014 um 12:03 schrieb Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com>:
>> 
>> This is not exactly about LiveCode but it's not OT either, I think. I am seeking an economical way of having an installer (or two installers) for a cross-platform LiveCode standalone - desktop, Windows and Mac. I have tried to use Mark Schonewille's LC-oriented solution but I can't make it work. So far my researches (Google mostly) seem to point to very expensive solutions intended for high volume sales. As I have no idea what sales volume to expect (it will be in the range zero to 1000!), this type of solution is not for me.
>> 
>> What do other people do? Can one get away without an installer as long as one has gone through the very daunting (to me) code-signing process on the two platforms? This didn't used to matter, either on Windows or Mac, and I have products out there where the installation 'just works', but increasingly it seems that the OSs are expecting a proper installing process.
>> 
>> I see that this may be quite a big subject, but I am too ignorant to be sure. Can anyone point me to a sensible discussion on this topic, hopefully with recommendations as to the way to go?
>> 
>> TIA
>> 
>> Graham
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