[Tutorial Required] Making a Portable Application using NSIS

[darnee]

I want a complete, beginner-friendly and step-by-step tutorial on how to build a portable application using the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System). I have searched the web a lot but none of the tutorials have been satisfactory enough. The development section of PortableApps.com is quiet lengthy and a bit difficult to understand for beginners like me. Basically I want to make an application portable that has the following features (when installed on a computer):-

1. Uses multiple registry keys
2. Stores some files in Documents And Settings\{User}\{AppName}\

Most of the tutorials on the web do not tell how to handle the above two cases which I believe are very common in applications.

Please post some good links although a tutorial here itself will be much more appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[hellnoire]

Ummm... if it's portable, you don't want to use multiple registry keys or to store any files anywhere... so you're kinda defeating the purpose of a portable app right there.

[darnee]

hellnoire you misunderstood my question. I don't want the portable app to store multiple registry keys on the computer but I want an app which stores multiple registry keys to be made portable.

I have now edited the question.

[noaccount]

i find this request inapropriate (...) , specially for someone who entitles himself a beginner. this is not the way to solve ur problem, why NSIS btw?

[darnee]

Sorry but I didn't get you. What do you mean by

i find this request inapropriate (...) , specially for someone who entitles himself a beginner. this is not the way to solve ur problem, why NSIS btw?

[Anakey]

basically what you are asking is a lot of hard work that will probably not produce a portable app even if it is possible to come up with a way to do it. As for being inappropriate, many applications prevent the reverse engineering or alteration of the application, and most will only allow installation on 1 PC, thats what the registry keys are for, if you make it portable you will be breaking the EULA. Best bet is to see if there is an alternative that is already designed to be portable, rarther then making one yourself.

[noaccount]

basically what you are asking is a lot of hard work that will probably not produce a portable app even if it is possible to come up with a way to do it. As for being inappropriate, many applications prevent the reverse engineering or alteration of the application, and most will only allow installation on 1 PC, thats what the registry keys are for, if you make it portable you will be breaking the EULA. Best bet is to see if there is an alternative that is already designed to be portable, rarther then making one yourself.

yes, yes, yes... why NSIS mr(?)-so-called-beginner?

[darnee]

First of all thanks for all the replies. Well I am beginner and that is why I didn't know that what I was asking for was

a lot of hard work that will probably not produce a portable app even if it is possible to come up with a way to do it

Secondly I was thinking of using only open source software or at the maximum freeware so I don't think there is any question of

if you make it portable you will be breaking the EULA

And anyways I am not distributing the software. It is for my own personal use.

[noaccount]

so what software do you want to make portable?

[hellnoire]

You'd still be breaking the EULA... look for a portable version of your software, or something like it... there's always something...