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PureBasic Portable
Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 9:55 pm
by uwekel
Hi,
i would like to have a Purebasic ZIP-file in the dowloads, which just need to be unzipped to run Purebasic without any installation. Sometimes users do not have administration rights which are currently required to install Purebasic on a PC.
Best regards
Uwe
Re: PureBasic Portable
Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 11:11 pm
by MicroByte
you can do that yourself:
/P <Preferences file> loads/saves all the configuration to/from the given file
or
/NOEXT disables the registering of the .pb extension in the registry
/LOCAL puts all preferences in the PureBasic directory instead of the user profile location
/PORTABLE the same as /LOCAL and /NOEXT combined
just create a shortcut, or encapsulate the original exe and launch it with clp
Re: PureBasic Portable
Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 8:53 am
by MachineCode
MicroByte wrote:you can do that yourself
Read again. He wants the Setup.exe install of PureBasic to be available as a zip, because not everyone can run a Setup.exe without admin rights.
Re: PureBasic Portable
Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 2:02 pm
by Tenaja
With MicroBytes instructions for execution, can you create the zip file yourself from your home PC...?
Re: PureBasic Portable
Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 2:39 pm
by Fred
uwekel wrote:Hi,
i would like to have a Purebasic ZIP-file in the dowloads, which just need to be unzipped to run Purebasic without any installation. Sometimes users do not have administration rights which are currently required to install Purebasic on a PC.
Best regards
Uwe
If you install PB in a folder different than program files, it should requiers admin rights even with the installer
Re: PureBasic Portable
Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 4:17 pm
by Little John
uwekel wrote:i would like to have a Purebasic ZIP-file in the dowloads, which just need to be unzipped to run Purebasic without any installation.
With appropriate software (e.g.
Total Commander together with its packer plugin
InstallExplorer), you can open any PureBasic setup EXE file (created by Inno Setup) as an archive, and unpack it manually.
Regards, Little John
Re: PureBasic Portable
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 12:48 pm
by Shield
First: yeah I know it's an old thread, but I just needed to do that today and
for some reason I remembered that there was a thread about that.
Anyway:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/innounp/?source=dlp
Simple tool, worked like a charm.
Edit:
Actually I have some trouble running it now.
Will try to figure it out.
Re: PureBasic Portable
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 2:13 pm
by leonhardt
Every time I need to run PB on other PCs, I zip the whole PureBasic directory then copy to there and unzip,that's ok though. (some .pref files may be added manuly)
Re: PureBasic Portable
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 2:19 pm
by Shield
Yeah but that's not possible in my case right now.
Re: PureBasic Portable
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 6:32 pm
by uwekel
leonhardt wrote:Every time I need to run PB on other PCs, I zip the whole PureBasic directory then copy to there and unzip,that's ok though. (some .pref files may be added manuly)
That's the way i do, too. But for convenience reason, i would prefer a Portable Edition with pre-configured settings. And a /PORTABLE startup switch even exists!
Re: PureBasic Portable
Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 11:29 am
by Little John
Thanks for mentioning that tool. With PB setup files it works more reliable for me than Total Commander's InstallExplorer plugin.
Anyway, a ZIP file in the dowloads which just needs to be unzipped to run PureBasic without any installation would be nice.