GCstar forums

andrehamburg · 2008-09-02 17:46:26

Hi all, i think a portable version to start e.g. from USB-Drives would be a great feature.

andrehamburg · 2008-09-08 20:39:00

Isn't it a good idea? (

GCHelp · 2008-09-09 08:33:29

Well, the problem is not 'is it a good idea' but 'is it possible'. GCStar is written in perl so it need an interpreter to run. However, it sounds possible to make a standalone executable with PAR-Packer (pp) which is a free software (compared to perl2exe which is not). But an executable made for Microsoft windows OS won't work on a Gnu-linux distribution and vice versa.
Moreover it's gonna be really painfull to create this executable because of GCStar's dependancies (Gtk2, xml, tar, zip...). And the final executable might be quite heavy (30mo at least)

Maybe somebody want to take care of it...I pass.

about PAR::Packer -> http://search.cpan.org/~smueller/PAR-Pa … /lib/pp.pm

andrehamburg · 2008-09-09 09:07:44

I think a portable version for windows should be a great first step ;o) Especially for me *g*
Even i had an idea. I copied the program folder from my Vista laptop where gcstar is installed to an usb-stick and plugged in on a Windows XP Computer. First i started the gcstar.exe in the bin folder. Nothing happened. After i started the gcstar.bat and... what should i say... it works ) Is this a portable version for windows or could some problems occur in the future?

GCHelp · 2008-09-09 11:15:41

Well, i guess it works because perl is installed on both of your computers. so yes if perl and gtk2-perl are installed on all your computers, it should work. But that's not a real portable version. For example if you want to use it on a friends computer, he might not have perl, so it won't run.

tpf · 2008-09-14 18:58:49

Hi,
Just a question : what will be the purpose to have a lite version of GCStar ? Is it just to have your collections with you ( in this case you can maybe use export in html ? )

Tian · 2008-09-22 08:35:30

GCHelp wrote:
Moreover it's gonna be really painfull to create this executable because of GCStar's dependancies (Gtk2, xml, tar, zip...). And the final executable might be quite heavy (30mo at least)
Maybe somebody want to take care of it...I pass.
about PAR::Packer -> http://search.cpan.org/~smueller/PAR-Pa … /lib/pp.pm

That's exactly what I did since version 1.4.0. And yes, that was really painful Now there a gcstar.exe file that also contains the perl interpreter and dependencies.

So the current Windows version is already portable. The installer just extracts all the files in one directory.

andrehamburg wrote:
Even i had an idea. I copied the program folder from my Vista laptop where gcstar is installed to an usb-stick and plugged in on a Windows XP Computer. First i started the gcstar.exe in the bin folder. Nothing happened. After i started the gcstar.bat and... what should i say... it works ) Is this a portable version for windows or could some problems occur in the future?

You can copy this directory anywhere, it should work as long as you use the .bat as you already noticed. You won't have any problem with that. The only one could be with language. Because of a bug on Windows systems, the language used is written in the .bat.

at · 2010-02-11 14:25:52

Well... it seems to be not strictly portable: it writes some setting to the registry:

Regshot 1.8.2
Commenti:
Dataora:2010/2/11 14:17:02 , 2010/2/11 14:18:02
Computer:*******, **************
Username: ,

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Added Keys:9
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HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\.gcs
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\GCstarFile
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\GCstarFile\DefaultIcon
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\GCstarFile\shell
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\GCstarFile\shell\open
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\GCstarFile\shell\open\command
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\GCstar
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\GCstar
HKU\S-1-5-21-1551380472-522478087-31540385-8952\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDlg32\OpenSaveMRU\hiv

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Added Values:18
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HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\.gcs\: "GCstarFile"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\GCstarFile\shell\open\command\: ""C:\Documents and Settings\*******\Desktop\GCstar\bin\gcstar.bat" "%1""
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\GCstarFile\shell\: "open"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\GCstarFile\DefaultIcon\: "C:\Documents and Settings\*******\Desktop\GCstar\share\gcstar\icons\GCstar.ico"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\GCstarFile\: "GCstar Collection"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\GCstar\: "C:\Documents and Settings\*******\Desktop\GCstar"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\GCstar\DisplayName: "GCstar 1.5.0"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\GCstar\UninstallString: "C:\Documents and Settings\*******\Desktop\GCstar\uninst.exe"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\GCstar\DisplayIcon: "C:\Documents and Settings\*******\Desktop\GCstar\gcstar"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\GCstar\DisplayVersion: "1.5.0"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\GCstar\URLInfoAbout: "http://www.gcstar.org/"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\GCstar\Publisher: "Tian"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\GCstar\NSIS:Language: "1040"
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HKU\S-1-5-21-1551380472-522478087-31540385-8952\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDlg32\OpenSaveMRU\hiv\a: "C:\Documents and Settings\***********\Desktop\1shotreg.hiv"
HKU\S-1-5-21-1551380472-522478087-31540385-8952\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDlg32\OpenSaveMRU\hiv\MRUList: "a"
HKU\S-1-5-21-1551380472-522478087-31540385-8952\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.hiv\OpenWithList\a: "regshot.exe"
HKU\S-1-5-21-1551380472-522478087-31540385-8952\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.hiv\OpenWithList\MRUList: "a"

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Modified Values:13
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really a mess.... I hope it could be done better 'cause it's really a nice program. Good Job!

Tian · 2010-02-14 20:41:11

Hi,

The only changes here are to associate .gcs files to GCstar and some information for the uninstaller. I have no idea what the other ones mean. But for sure, GCstar don't use the registry at runtime, so nothing is needed here.

phoenix1971 · 2017-01-11 23:46:14

Does anybody know if the software was ever made portable or not,as i'd love to be able to carry my collection with me
cheers

kerenoc · 2017-01-12 15:03:01

The way to create a portable version of GCstar depends on the target operating system.

On Windows, there was a discussion on this topic last year ( http://forums.gcstar.org/viewtopic.php?id=18103 ). One needs to change the environment variable APPDATA to point to a directory in the removable media.

On Linux, one has to use a portable version of Perl.

bittner · 2019-02-18 00:05:42

I've just tried to run GCstar with Docker, using x11docker. It seems to work pretty fine.

This is the Dockerfile I used for it:

Code:

# GCstar in Docker
# ----------------
# Run this Docker image with x11docker, https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker
# 
# 1. $ docker build . -t gcstar
# 2. $ ./x11docker --home gcstar

FROM perl:5-slim

RUN apt-get update \
 && apt-get install -y gcstar \
 && apt-get autoremove --purge \
 && apt-get clean

USER 1001

CMD gcstar

You simply clone the x11docker repository and follow the steps 1.+2. described above in the Dockerfile.

Of course, this is more an experiment than something useful for end users. But it's worth a try! :-)

Last edited by bittner (2019-02-18 00:07:50)

kerenoc · 2019-02-21 09:26:10

Nice proof of concept.

It requires the availability of a Linux package for the latest version of GCstar and currently the major distribs are still using a very old version. I contacted some maintainers to no avails.

An alternative would be to install GCstar from the sources taken from the Git repository directly in the container. Or to use generic packages that could be generated with the CI/CD process of Gitlab (https://gitlab.com/Kerenoc/GCstar/blob/ … lab-ci.yml).

GCstar forums - GCstar portable

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GCstar portable

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Re: GCstar portable

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