You can also use Inno Setup which is nice, easy, and free.

http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php#features

But ok, it doesn't do MSI.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6245260/installers-wix-or-inno-setup

But you can get around that with http://www.exemsi.com/inno-setup-and-msi

Good luck.

Phil





On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Hernán Morales Durand <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I have never tried but it seems you can wrap installer in MSI files using
> WiX http://wixtoolset.org/ and this package http://www.exemsi.com/
>
> To write the installer check this out:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/**biosmalltalk/wiki/**NSISInstallerScript<http://code.google.com/p/biosmalltalk/wiki/NSISInstallerScript>
>
> Hernán
>
> El 26/08/2013 17:29, Usman Bhatti escribió:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Stéphane Ducasse
>> <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:stephane.ducasse@**inria.fr<[email protected]>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>      > Hello,
>>      >
>>      > Does anyone have experience of distributing Pharo-based software
>>     as an MSI installer package to be installed by clients?
>>
>>     what is an MSI?
>>
>>
>> Microsoft installer, a packaging for windows-based software that allows
>> installation of the software on a windows machine: creation of registry
>> keys, Start menu items, looking for previous installations of the
>> software and upgrading it, etc.
>>
>>
>>      > I would particularly like to know the tool that was used to
>>     create the MSI.
>>
>>     Do you mean installing a Pharo App?
>>     What means installing?
>>
>>
>> So, it would mean that Pharo app is installed on a client machine:
>> creating directory hierarchy, placing image and vm files and any scripts
>> that come with the image, and creating windows shortcuts. For the time,
>> its a question from a client so I thought someone might have some
>> relevant exp.
>>
>>
>>     Because if you ship an image in essence:
>>              you ship one image
>>              with an opening image saying installing….
>>              then you save
>>
>>
>>
>>      >
>>      > regards,
>>      >
>>      > Usman Bhatti
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>

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