[sldev] Compile as installer

Tobias Lang tlang303 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 07:51:02 PST 2008


Hi,
besides all issues of licensing, you can easily create a "setup.exe". Just
install the Nullsoft Scriptable installer (http://nsis.sf.net) and run
"secondlife setup build agni.bat". This batch then calls the
"viewer_manifest.py" python scripts which creates automatically the
installer script for NSIS and runs it.  For every library or custom file you
like to ship, make sure that you include it in the viewer_manifest.py.

I hope this answers the question.
-Tobi

On Jan 24, 2008 10:39 AM, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net> wrote:

> Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> > On 2008-01-24, at 03:20, Robin Cornelius wrote:
> >> Also be very careful if you are distributing files, there are a good
> >> number of (non linden) files that have licenses that do not permit
> >> redistribution; fmod,the voice stuff,the ttf fonts to name a few.
> >
> > Still?
> >
> > Does the Linden version of the GPL explicitly exclude those libraries?
> > If not, you can't legally distribute a binary version of the open
> > source client, since those are not a standard part of the OS it runs
> > on. Not that that's likely to create practical problems, given that
> > it's unlikely Linden Labs will get on your case about it.
> >
> > The FLOSS exception does not appear to cover this, and according to
> > the FSF the fact that they're shared libraries doesn't make a
> > difference: shared libraries are not 'independent and separate works'.
>
> The FSF is full of it too. You have no control over which shared
> libraries are distributed and used with what. It would be like creating
> a copyright notice that you can't put a notebook full of notes in an
> arbitrary binder and sell it because you don't like the copyright on the
> contents of the rest of the binder, even though the notes can be sold
> separately, next to each other.
>
> Lawson
>
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