Henry Vermaak wrote:
On 31 July 2011 17:18, David M. Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote:
Back in the ancient days when I got Delphi, it was bundled with a version of
InstallShield. Can ya'll recommend any decent -- preferably free --
replacements? If you like the Windows installer system, can anyone point me
to a decent tutorial explaining how to use it?
I can strongly recommend the Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset:
http://wix.sourceforge.net/
It's an interface to the Windows Installer where you define all the
specifics of your project in an XML file. It the compiles and links
into an msi file. Documentation and tutorials are good. I've
switched some of our products over to it and we haven't looked back.
It even does automatic driver installs.
I wonder if I could phrase the OP's question in a slightly different way.
Allowing that Linux and other unix-style OSes have package formats of
various kinds, and allowing that an MSI file is just another
implementation of the same sort of thing, is there a "meta installer"
that can at the very least be used to build dependency lists etc.?
Debian and derivatives have a utility called alien that can be used to
convert between package formats, but it seems to me to be unfortunate if
a programmer has to go through a sequence of stages to build a package
for Debian, another for Ubuntu which might have different locations or
symlinks for e.g. database libraries, another for Fedora and then
finally something similar for Windows.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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