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Originally Posted by Owl_
Is it possible to create .exe file so that the users connect the kobo to Windows, double click on the setup.exe, and KOreader will be automatically installed?
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Yes.
It is also possible to create .exe so than users double click on the setup.exe and be forwarded to
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=314220, where they follow a tutorial for having KOreader almost automatically installed.
In both cases it is a bad idea as binaries are opaque by nature and you'll need to trust the person that shares them.
Also an app that does that for a specific platform needs to leverage platform specific APIs to deal with stuff like: partition mounting/checking, downloading bundles and editing text files.
Using cross platform toolkits like Qt or WxWidgets will result in a installer bigger that the package it is going to install. So the solution would be using C/C++ for the core, libcurl for dealing with https and winforms/cocoa/gtk for the UI.
Then with the app ready to go find a person that wants to keep it updated and build it periodically for each platform.
And all that just for
one target.
Very bad idea but you can prove me wrong
