(2016-07-06, 13:28)Willy Tschager Wrote:(2016-07-05, 20:53)Trevor Sandy Wrote: Under this approach you would have missed the prerequisite of installing the Visual Studio 2015 runtime. If you look in the installation root directory, you will see vc_redist.x86[64].exe. It is necessary to manually install the contents of this package (or have a previous installation) before running LPub3D from a portable distribution.
With the NSIS installer-packaged distribution, the installer will automatically look in your System32 directory for vcruntime140.dll. If it is not found, the installer will proceed to install vc_redist.x86[64].exe. You can see the details of this activity if you select to show details during the install files dialog when the installer is running.
I have updated sourceForge with the source for version 2.0.4. You can look under tools/Win-setup to find '00 BuildLPub3D00AndCreateDistNoPack.bat' and 'LPub3DNoPack.nsi'. These are the scripts used to package all distributions of LPub3D and should help you with your AIOI packaging - particularly the latter script.
Hi Trevor,
many thanks for the insight. I'll see if the:
IfFileExists "$Windir\System32\vcruntime140.dll"
is enough or if the installer prog I work with comes with some additional tricks.
Looking through the script I noticed that you install a "lpub3dldrawunf.zip". I presume it is a copy of the ldrawunf.zip. You will surely have noticed that we do not distribute "unofficials" along with the LDraw Parts Library or in the AIOI, but just offer the download with the appropriate warning because of their delicate nature. The .zip comes with no license and is not meant to be redistributed as the official library.
w.
Willy - Indeed, I use 2 archive library files, complete.zip which I use as-is, and lpub3dldrrawunf.zip which is used to store all non-official content. This includes generated fade files, custom part 'assemblies', or any content found within the LDraw\Unofficial directory (other than parts under 'p' or 'parts' subdirectories). Keep in mind the purpose of LPub3D is to generate instructions so, I have found, sometimes it's necessary to create custom part configurations.
Of course I could use an empty archive file with just the folder structure (no LDraw unofficial content) whereby the user can choose to pull single files or whatever into their archive by simply placing them at the appropriate location under their Unofficial directory; however, to keep the behaviour efficient, I load the full archive. There is functionality form the UI menu to update the archive files, in their entirety, at any time which will allow the user to sync with LDraw anytime they want.
I'm not sure I understand everything about all the sensitivity and licensing stuff. For me, the content is freely available, and it adds efficiency to include it in the package. Of course, as you have said, there are pitfalls with the unofficial content so it's inclusion must be done in a way that maintains flexibility, exclusion from official content and efficient update.
Cheers,