VPatch 3.0 release

Not sure if this is related to the conversion to native rather than cross-compiled, but I get this failure with g++ 4.0:

g++ -o build/release/VPatch/Source/GenPat/GenPat -s -Wl,--file-alignment,512 -Wl,-Map,build/release/VPatch/Source/GenPat/GenPat.map build/release/VPatch/Source/GenPat/adler32.o build/release/VPatch/Source/GenPat/Checksums.o build/release/VPatch/Source/GenPat/ChunkedFile.o build/release/VPatch/Source/GenPat/FileFormat1.o build/release/VPatch/Source/GenPat/GlobalTypes.o build/release/VPatch/Source/GenPat/main.o build/release/VPatch/Source/GenPat/md5.o build/release/VPatch/Source/GenPat/PatchGenerator.o build/release/VPatch/Source/GenPat/POSIXUtil.o
/usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option '--file-alignment'
/usr/bin/ld: use the --help option for usage information
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
scons: *** [build/release/VPatch/Source/GenPat/GenPat] Error 1

Ah yes, the tests are useless without VAppend. So they do not need to be included with NSIS.

The GCC 4 error looks very much like an option to the compiler is not recognized. This might be a SCons thing.

If I ignore that error using SKIPUTILS, I get some more build errors on the plugin and elsewhere, which can be fixed by the attached patch against CVS.

Thanks, all fixed.

These changes will be added to the 'full' VPatch as well, but it will have to wait a while 'cause it's not that an important an update for the default distribution. It will be bundled as soon as there is also something else new that warrants a new version. 🙂

Vpatch use problem

Hi
I would like to use Vpatch for installing my mod.
Mod consist from 6 files (aprox 30 MB each)
This files should be inserted to archives (each file to separate archive, apr 600 MB), but I do not want the user to insert each file manually

I want to patch file with vpatch plugin.
I tried it in this way:

!insertmacro VPatchFile "m12_main.pat" "$INSTDIR\M12_main.zip"
(I think it means: patch "$INSTDIR\M12_main.zip" with file "m12_main.pat")

(before patching I unpacked m12_main.pat file to instdir)

The problem is, that I want the smallest installer and I can not extract those 600 MB archives to patch them (readme example says that I have to extract new file)

Out-dated game archives are present at target system and I want to patch them with patch files generated with genpat, so the installer size should be aprx 6x30MB (uncompressed)
Is there any way to do it?
thx

Zip files have no solid compression, so you can patch them directly. You have to create a new zip file and create a patch from the old to the new archive.

vpatch

I used this script:
vpatch::vpatchfile $PLUGINSDIR\patch.pat" "$INSTDIR\M12_main.zip" "$INSTDIR\M12_main_new.zip"

(from vpach example)

M12_main.zip is present on target system, M12_main_new.zip no (I used it to generate patch with genpat.exe), so I got this error::
Result: Unable to open source file

So what to do?
(I do not want to extract whole M12_main.zip to target system, because it is 600MB big)

You forgot a quote mark:

vpatch::vpatchfile "$PLUGINSDIR\patch.pat" "$INSTDIR\M12_main.zip" "$INSTDIR\M12_main_new.zip"

vpatch

JasonFriday13: Thanks, but it did not help

I always have error: cannot open output file
I tried
vpatch::vpatchfile "$PLUGINSDIR\patch.pat" "$INSTDIR\M12_main.zip" "$INSTDIR\M12_main.zip",

vpatch::vpatchfile "$INSTDIR\patch.pat" "$INSTDIR\M12_main.zip" "$INSTDIR\M12_main.zip",

vpatch::vpatchfile "$INSTDIR\patch.pat" "$INSTDIR\M12_main.zip"

too, but still the same error

I used the example to make it, but there are 3 files (new txt, old txt and patch) and I have only two (old and patch)
and it still does not work....

vpatch

I mean the same as this guy:


I mean: Vpatch is useless...

I just want to really PATCH file, it means that I HAVE old file and I will physicall rewritten it with patch (patch should be some manual for dll/installer how to change the target file: like "write 0xFFAHBD on offset position 145585, then write...")

This is not the PATCH...it just better copy function...

I mean it like Profesional Patch System - EA use it for their games - it changes only few bytes of file...
I am really dissapointed from it, because I tried to "patch" my file for hours and I found out that it is not possible with this tool.