portable wings

[scg]

Hello
want to ask why there is not a portable or a no install version of wings
i just ask to make wings work from one folder without any depending on the system files or registry data .
thanks

[nemyax]

If you're on Windows, Wings is pretty portable as it is. You can copy the installation directory from one computer to another without any linking troubles, but you need to take the following additional steps:

1. Edit the paths in <installation_folder>\bin\erl.ini
   
2. Reinstall your preferences either by using File | Load Preference Subset or by dropping your old preferences.txt into %appdata%\Wings3D.
   

[scg]

thanks i will try
this will be great

[micheus]

nemyax, I'm not sure about need to play with boot.start file (I also don't think it's a good idea)

I have many Wings3d installs running in a pen-drive. I just copied the install dir from HD to the pen-drive and changed the erl.ini file (found in the same place as boot.start)

About the preferences, it's easy to change the preferences location by using a custom shortcut. Just create shortcut for Wings3d in the new location using the Windows Explorer as usual and then edit it by replacing the Destination by the werl.exe (into the bin folder) and append the parameters "-extra" like pointed by dgud in this post - it's the preferences file location.

Just note that if your preferences is already pointing to a preference_subset it will refer to its original location. In this case, you can edit your relocated preferences.txt and update the file path in it.

[nemyax]

erl.ini

Yes, of course it's erl.ini, not boot.start. Thanks for the correction and sorry about the confusion. (Edited the original post.)

[scg]

thank you all