Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

2017-11-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-11-06 04:04, Flávio Etrusco wrote: AFAICS it would require quite a few enhancements (and modifications to the user scripts) to abstract away per-machine vs per-user declarations in InnoSetup. I can't see why you think that. I used the unpack tool Michael suggested, and unpacked the off

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

2017-11-05 Thread Flávio Etrusco
Hi, 2017-11-02 17:54 GMT-02:00 Graeme Geldenhuys : > On 2017-11-02 07:17, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >> >> The installer is made with inno setup. There are several inno extract >> tools >> available, e.g.: >> http://constexpr.org/innoextract/ > > > Thank you Michael, that worked perfectly. Strange

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

2017-11-03 Thread Martok
Am 02.11.2017 um 21:00 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > The FPC team really should consider releasing a Windows binary zip > release too. It really wouldn't be any extra effort as they already prep > everything for Inno Setup, so a simply ZIP command is all that would be > needed. In case you don't

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

2017-11-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-11-02 11:30, Bart wrote: For commandline compilen (and building Lazarus from console) it's preferrable to have fpc's bin directory in the path (and you need admin privileges for that). If you use ConEmu [https://conemu.github.io/] - an alternative console for Windows, it allows you to

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

2017-11-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-11-02 10:31, James Richters wrote: I'm curious if it really needs to be installed? FPC and Lazarus can run just fine without an installer. In fact, that is how I've been running FPC and Lazarus under Linux and FreeBSD for the last 10 years. The problem under Windows was that I couldn'

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

2017-11-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-11-02 07:17, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: The installer is made with inno setup. There are several inno extract tools available, e.g.: http://constexpr.org/innoextract/ Thank you Michael, that worked perfectly. Strange that the inno setup executable (the FPC installer) doesn't have a par

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

2017-11-02 Thread Bart
On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 11:31 AM, James Richters wrote: > I'm curious if it really needs to be installed? For commandline compilen (and building Lazarus from console) it's preferrable to have fpc's bin directory in the path (and you need admin privileges for that). Otherwise just copying the entir

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

2017-11-02 Thread James Richters
al Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Graeme Geldenhuys Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2017 2:48 AM To: FPC-Pascal users discussions Subject: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights Hi, I have a severely locked down laptop (

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

2017-11-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, I have a severely locked down laptop (work one) so I can't install anything that creates menu shortcuts, desktop icons or goes into "Program Files". So I can't run the official Windows FPC installer. I don't actually know what is the require

[fpc-pascal] FPC install on windows with limited rights

2017-11-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I have a severely locked down laptop (work one) so I can't install anything that creates menu shortcuts, desktop icons or goes into "Program Files". So I can't run the official Windows FPC installer. I don't actually know what is the requirement in Windows to trigger the "admin rights" di