kybishop Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 I realise there are various portable apps, but I was wondering if it's possible to take programs that aren't optimized for thumb drives, and install them to a flash drive anyways. Example: My high school uses a crappy compiler, so I want to install my own on to a flash drive. thanks for the help Kyle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boristsr Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 I realise there are various portable apps, but I was wondering if it's possible to take programs that aren't optimized for thumb drives, and install them to a flash drive anyways.Example: My high school uses a crappy compiler, so I want to install my own on to a flash drive. thanks for the help Kyle compiler for what language?also, it's very easy to install programs to a flash drive, no different to installing it on a hard drive. problems can arise when the programs store configuration data in a different directory or in the registry. it all depends on what program you want. it's easy to put MinGW on a flash drive (MinGW is a port of GCC so it supports a lot of languages). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kybishop Posted September 29, 2006 Author Share Posted September 29, 2006 A C and C++ compiler For know I'm thinking of the free bloodshed compiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boristsr Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 A C and C++ compilerFor know I'm thinking of the free bloodshed compiler right, well Bloodshed only make an IDE (Dev-CPP) which also includes the MinGW compiler. i haven't used that IDE for a while now, but from what i remember, it stored the settings in the programs directory so there should be no issues at all with running that on multiple computers from a flash drive.i used to have minGW on my flash drive and the only issue i ever had with it was it could be very slow on larger projects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kybishop Posted September 29, 2006 Author Share Posted September 29, 2006 thanks for the help borister, I'll take suggestions for other programs if people have them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yourmysin Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 most programs can be installed on thumb drives without any problems, but i dont think compilers can. Most compilers need to use resources which should be installed on your HARDDRIVE. But i havent tried to run many different compilers on my jumpdrive so im not positive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 I'm interested in applications that run entirely from a USB thumb drive without installing anything on the hard drive or leaving traces (fragments of files, registry changes etc.). I know there are some ideas on the wiki but I don't know of any compiler/linker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pseudobreed Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 This may help. Your biggest concern is the drive changing letters. You can tell windows to always give a drive a certain drive letter, but that would be a pain to do on every machine. Especially in a school enviroment where you may not get to used the same computer in the lab that you were using before. I guess you could make a batch script: subst Z: %CD% That will create a virtual drive Z that maps to your USB drive, or wherever you called the batch script from. Then to delete the virtual drive: subst Z: /D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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