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    <p>You mention <a href="http://www.wxwidgets.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">wxWidgets</a> but dismiss it as failing at least one of the requirements.</p> <p>I don't know what your requirements are and in what way wxWidgets wouldn't work for you, but IMO it does fulfill them:</p> <blockquote> <p>Cross platform: it should be runnable on XP, Vista, OSX and common versions of Linux.</p> </blockquote> <p>It does run on those platforms, but "common versions of Linux" isn't good enough, as you can never be sure that the necessary GUI libraries for wxGTK (which should not be linked to statically) will be installed. This is however a problem for other solutions as well, unless you plan to put <em>everything</em> onto the stick.</p> <blockquote> <p>No installation: Be able to run the software from a USB stick without having to copy anything to the host machine.</p> </blockquote> <p>See the previous point, you would need to specify which libraries are needed on Linux. Also you could specify at build time not to use some of the system-provided libraries (for example for graphics, compression, regexes) but to use the wxWidgets-internal libraries instead.</p> <blockquote> <p>Have good GUI support</p> </blockquote> <p>Check.</p> <blockquote> <p>Permissive licensing such as LGPL or BSD or such.</p> </blockquote> <p>Check. You can statically link wxWidgets into your application too.</p> <blockquote> <p>supporting a good language such as Python or C++</p> </blockquote> <p>Supports both, and there are bindings to other languages as well.</p> <blockquote> <p>having a set of abstractions for the most common backend functionality, such as sockets, file IO, and so on</p> </blockquote> <p>It does have some abstractions like that, but you can link to other cross-platform libraries as well.</p> <p>We use wxWidgets for <a href="http://www.flamerobin.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">FlameRobin</a>, a graphical administration program for the Firebird SQL server. It has active ports to Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, and has been compiled for at least some BSD variant and Solaris as well. It definitely runs from a stick on Windows, I haven't tried with Linux or Mac OS X, but I don't see why it shouldn't there too.</p>
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    1. POAre there any USB stick runnable, no-install, cross platform software frameworks (with GUI)?
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    1. COThanks. Good info. Actually, I don't mind having "huge" bundles on the stick since they are pretty cheap these days. I am trying to minimize the need/risk of having to install anything on the target. I'll add some sort of use case to the question.
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    2. COI still don't see anything in your requirements that would eliminate a wxWidgets solution. What I mentioned as problematic areas in my answer is most likely problematic with other solutions as well, if you intend to integrate with the Linux desktop. With every solution you will have to define some baseline requirements for the target OS to run on.
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    3. COI see. Do you think it possible to bundle the wxGTK libraries to avoid the installation problem? Or am I misunderstanding your argument?
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