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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: can one make a static build Ada+GUI GTK application?
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 16:05:49 -0600
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Date: 2013-03-01T16:05:49-06:00
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"Georg Bauhaus" <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> wrote in message 
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> Imagine a statically bound executable program that takes care
> of its own installation. There's an icon. Fist click means
> "install". After that, all other clicks on the same icon mean
> "run".

Why imagine it? That's how the Claw builder works, for example. (There is an 
optional command line switch to allow specifying which compiler you want to 
set it up for and whether you want desktop and menu icons, but that's it.) 
There's no difficulty to creating such programs (at least for Windows).

The "problem" is that Windows security won't let you install such a program 
under a limited user account, and only idiots and grandmothers run Windows 
as an adminstrator all the time. So we use the installer program to ensure 
that it gets run once before the user touches it. (On older Windows like 
Windows 98 and Windows 2000, no installation was necessary at all; that was 
mainly so that distribution of the free version consisted of nothing but a 
small ZIP file.)

                     Randy.