OpenRA...Portable?

ZeRo_Bahamut · Post by **ZeRo_Bahamut** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:35 am

Hi all,

Quite an easy request I have really, could you make a portable version so you're able to run it from USB stick or from a work PC etc etc...

Loving it so far, keep up the good work reviving this old gem.

Kanar · Post by **Kanar** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:24 pm

U could make your whole OS portable on USB stick.

ZeRo_Bahamut · Post by **ZeRo_Bahamut** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:23 pm

Kanar wrote: ↑U could make your whole OS portable on USB stick.

Aye that i could, but thats defeating the purpose of making this 50mb-ish app into a portable version vs a 60gig+ filled SSD.

I did however expirement with VMWare Workstation 8 and installed a virtual windows 95 to run the original Red Alert, but still, a virtual machine is way bigger then a portable app, so no, not an option.

The game is freeware and so is the engine using it, changing the content directory that normally goes onto my documents folder to a folder on the thumb drive isnt that complicated a task I think, surely it's possible and handy to boot., Red Alert and Tiberian Dawn anywhere. ;-)

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:15 pm

You could search the source code (it is Free Software, not Freeware) for

Code: Select all

Platform.SupportDir

and replace it with something relative to the OpenRA.Game.exe to load the settings.yaml and gamefiles as well write the Log files in the same directory if you only have write permission on your USB stick. But I don't think that is the case on your working computer as you would hardly be able to edit any documents. Just copy OpenRA together with your OpenRA My Documents folder and you should be able to play even when you are not allowed to install software on that computer (which might have a reason...).

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:10 am

http://portableapps.com/development/beginner_packaging uses NSIS which is also used by https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/tree/m ... ng/windows

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:43 am

Okay, I did it myself now https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/pull/3819

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sun Apr 13, 2014 6:21 pm

We removed the feature from our own installer again, but I wrote at http://portableapps.com/node/32463#comment-214900 why and on how to create a portable installer for Windows.