Standalone/portable patcher on Windows


#1

Just wondering what is the best option for a portable patching environment would be? It would be very convenient for me to have the patcher and libraries on a USB drive etc.


#2

What about the Linux version running inside a VM? That could even be somewhat OS independent if the VM software used is supported... So you might be able to bring your portable patcher that you normally use on your windows laptop and use it on someone else's Mac (for example). I realise the patcher supports both, but you wouldn't be able to have one portable version support both.


#3

You can set the environment variables
axoloti_runtime
axoloti_home
axoloti_release
axoloti_firmware
to suitable paths and launch axoloti.exe in a windows batch file. That should make it portable.
Check axoloti.java for the details.
For multiplatform, the only platform-dependent stuff is in separate folders: platform_win, platform_osx, and platform linux. You could launch the java jar, only have to provide java for every platform in some way too.

Does that provide enough information for you?


#4

@SirPrimalform That is a bit heavyweight for my needs, need to be able to run the patcher on a live performance installation. :slight_smile:

@johannes OK, yes that should be enough info. :slight_smile:


#5

@ hellcore So this tutorial is for another Java-App but it's very easy to make a portable Axoloti-Patcher-App for Win with it. :wink:

You only have to put the axoloti runtime directory to "C:\Program Files (x86)\axoloti_runtime" (or set it to your path under "preferences" and that's all :smiley: