Autorun Application

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Hello,

So I've been browsing on Google quite alot now and I can't seem to find any articles on how to create a proper autorun application. With this I mean an application that is not directly depending on any framework (.NET for example) and can run on pretty much any Windows system.

With this I want to create a very small application where a User gets the possibility to choose between Installing the Application or Running a project inside the application. (which is also stored on the CD).

So to set out my question more specific:

Does anybody know any articles, tips or anything else that might help me out about creating your own AutoRun applications.

PS: So not the default autorun.inf a real (.exe) application!

Posted 3-Jun-10 1:22am

Jordy "Kaiwa" Ruiter

Updated 3-Jun-10 6:31am

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Henry Minute 3-Jun-10 8:12am

If they are part of the problem, don't include them. The tags are there to tell people what expertise might be required to answer the question. Anyone with only C# experience, seeing that tag would waste their time only to find that you do not require their assistance. That's my point.

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If you do not want it to be dependant on any framework, why did you include .NET and C# in the tags?

What you need to do is write a program that can be compiled to a native Windows executable. So if you search for compilers for native windows executables you should get quite a list.

Select the language that you either already know or fancy learning from that list and do further searches for tutorials on the one you have chosen.

Posted 3-Jun-10 1:39am

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Jordy "Kaiwa" Ruiter 3-Jun-10 7:46am

Well because those tags are part of my problem. .NET and C# are not suitable for AutoRun Applications, thus my point.

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Sauro Viti · Accepted Answer · 2010-06-03T02:20:00

Solution 2

You can use Visual C++ to create a native application; then to make the executable independant from any runtime, use the project properties to set the following:

link statically to MFC (if you are using it)
use the static version of the C/C++ runtime, by setting up the compiler switch /MT (instead of /MTd which is the default)

Posted 3-Jun-10 2:20am

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Jordy "Kaiwa" Ruiter 3-Jun-10 8:49am

Thank you so much, the last one fixed my issues! I tried this before but it would never run from CD :)