[OT] new version of InstaMaker Windows /macOS Vine with support for x64 Installers

[scott at elementarysoftware.com]

Hello Matthias,

I was away from my computer for while and so only recently able to test your latest build. Unfortunately I was unable to get either one of them to build an installer. 

First I tested the Wine packaged version of InstaMaker. Your custom icon appeared correctly. The drag and drop did appear to work but I was never able to get InstaMaker to finish processing. I was not sure if anything was  reported in "show details” after listing the contents of the folder that was dropped because the InstaMaker window became unresponsive and never relinquished control. I had to “Quit WineCX"… which of course made it impossible to scroll the “show details” field. It did appear as if there might have been something reported as the scroll bar seemed to have a good bit of room to scroll.

Looking at the Apple utility “Activity Monitor.app” I notice that one of the (multiple) wine64-preloader processes continued to run and consume 4.5 - 5.5% of the CPU. After waiting some time  (5 or 10 minutes) I tried Quitting InstaMaker. This appeared to work although in one case the wine processes continued to be present in Activity Monitor. (In this instance, when restarting the computer, the wine64-preloader processes kept the restart from happening and needed to be force-quit.) I tested several times with similar "user results” (the installer didn’t build and InstaMaker appeared to be frozen with the indeterminant-progress indicator spinning. I restarted the computer after several of the tests but this made no difference.

I had a similar experience when running InstaMaker inside Parallels Desktop running a 64 bit version of Windows 10. InstaMaker’s indeterminant-progress indicator began spinning and that was it. I restarted Windows and tried again but with the same result.

I’m sorry that I don’t have happier (or more useful) information.

—
Scott

> On Oct 11, 2022, at 3:01 AM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> for those who might have downloaded the Wine version of InstaMaker and ran into an error saying that the app is damaged and should be moved into the Trash...
> 
> The DMG is okay, but due to the nature of the complete Wine file, which does not need Wine to be installed on your Mac, it is not notarized and some macOS versions come with this error message.
> 
> You could solve this by remove the quarantine attribut from the app.  To do this, open the Terminal.app and enter the following. 
> 
> sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/MyApp.app
> 
> Replace /path/to/MyApp.app with the complete path to the Wine app. The easiest way is to type online
> 
> sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine   and then drag the app from finder windows into the terminal window. This copies the complete path to the command line.
> 
> There will be some errors saying that some files were not readable. You can ignore that. 
> 
> After that you can open the app without any error message.
> 
> Btw. there is a newer version of InstaMaker available with some bug fixing and improvements. Thanks to Scott Morrow for testing and feedback.
> 
> Windows
> https://dl.qck.nu/?dl=InstaMaker_1.0.5_Setup.exe.zip
> 
> macOS Wine app
> https://dl.qck.nu/?dl=InstaMaker_1.0.5.dmg <https://dl.qck.nu/?dl=InstaMaker_1.0.5.dmg>
> 
> Regards,
> Matthias
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 06.10.2022 um 21:46 schrieb matthias rebbe via use-
> 
> 
> 
>> ivecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> i am happy to announce that an updated version of InstaMaker is available.
>> InstaMaker is a Wrapper for Inno Setup, a free installer for Windows programs.
>> InstaMaker makes it easier to create Installers for your Livecode Windows standalones with Inno Setup.
>> 
>> What is new
>> - InstaMaker now allows to create also installers for Windows x64 applications on x64 editions of Windows
>> - A new Wine version of InstaMaker for macOS is available. It allows to create the Windows Installers directly on macOS.
>> 
>> Downloads:
>> macOS Wine version
>> https://dl.qck.nu/?dl=InstaMaker_1.0.4_RC1.app.zip
>> 
>> Windows x64
>> https://dl.qck.nu/?dl=InstaMaker_Setup_x64.exe
>> 
>> 
>> I would be very grateful if someone could test the new versions and would give some feedback if all works as expected.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Matthias
>> 
>> 
>> 
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