Distributing applications

Distributing applications and extensions

The installation procedure should

1. Read the location of the IDA installation directory from the registry value IDA_path of key
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Equa\progname\version
2. When installing a new application, create the application folder IDA_path\lib\appname\.
3. Install all required files in the application folder.

To install application or extension for the current user only, the installation procedure should

1. Read the location of the user private folder from the registry value AppPrivate of key
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Equa\progname\version
   If the registry does not contain such a value, use subfolder Equa\progname\ in the standard user’s Application Data folder provided by the Windows operative system
2. Create the application folder PrivateFolder\lib\appname\, if it does not exist yet.
3. Install all required files in the application folder.

The installation program may also ask the user for the installation folder. In this way the application may be installed to a common (shared) folder that may be available over a network to multiple users.

Here progname is either IDA Modeler or a name defined in the IDA Application (e.g., ida-ice, ida-tunnel).

The current version of IDA Modeler is 4.0.

The uninstallation procedure should remove all installed files and directories.