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The Java-VM is mostly installed (and installable by-click otherwise) and Python has py2exe. I don't think many windows desktop application are written in the ot
by coffeeaddicted 18y ago
The Java-VM is mostly installed (and installable by-click otherwise) and Python has py2exe. I don't think many windows desktop application are written in the other languages you mentioned.
It's really sad, as lisp would probably also be great for desktop development. I mean it's not the problem of lisp - but it's unfortunately still a show-stopper for typical windows application developers.
- anamax 18y agoAlmost all windows applications are installed by running a specially built setup program. Often that program is itself a single exe, but not always. Occasionally there's a whole pile of files that the setup program moves to various locations. This seems to be true regardless of the source language(s) of said application. There are some nice tools to build said setup programs. That's why I asked whether they would be useful.
- Tritis 18y agoYou're hand waving again. Is there a solution for deploying a lisp application to a windows end user? If I develop an application can a user download an exe which installs the requirements and have the application run after clicking an entry in the start menu?
- coffeeaddicted 18y agoYes, a tool that creates a simple to use setup for users, which allows those users to start lisp applications after an easy installation from the startmenu would be useful. Maybe that does even exist, I didn't see that so far, but it's been some time (about 3 years) since I last spend some time trying to do something like this. I guess if it would for example install the clisp environment (if it's not installed already) and binds files with lisp extensions to it so they get executed on click that could be sufficient already. Do you know of a ready-to-use tool which does that already?