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Jordi
Jordi

Reputation: 23247

Engines for creating installers

I'm looking for installation creator engines. I've checked NSIS and NDJS.

I would like to request for some additional information about them, or another tools I could use.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 209

Answers (2)

hypheni
hypheni

Reputation: 816

Apart from what Slappy said I would like add Microsoft Xml type installer i.e. Wix into your list. Thought NSIS/Inno is a beautiful piece of tool to build installer system, Wix is more modern and directly accessible from Visual Studio projects.

Learning curve of Wix is a bit hard than these scripting languages but many companies are now using this Wix tool.

Upvotes: 0

Slappy
Slappy

Reputation: 5472

There is also Inno Setup which is free and amazing installation system.

I am not sure about NDJS but I can recommend NSIS and Inno Setup (see disclaimer below).

Both NSIS and Inno Setup are excellent. They are open source, well documented (yes this is true!), with large community and active development (NSIS has new release 3 days ago even during Christmas!).

NSIS is C like scripting language but a little more difficult to start with. Inno Setup is Pascal like language easier to learn.

Their capabilities are unlimited because of their scripting nature: you can do everything in them and even wrote C/C++/pascal/C# (maybe other) plug-ins if you need to execute something really special. They are useful for any Windows apps (native, .NET, plugin-s, drivers, firmware, from small apps to enterprise solutions).

To start with .net installer (Inno Setup) try e.g. this code: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/20868/NET-Framework-Installer-for-InnoSetup

Disclaimer:

I tried several other commercial install system systems but none of them offered the same as NSIS/Inno Setup (for free). I use NSIS and Inno Setup daily and I recommend them as best install system available.

I am NSIS and Inno Setup professional and I develop professional installers in this systems (http://www.unsigned.sk). I also developed Microsoft Visual Studio and Embarcadero RAD studio extensions which integrate NSIS and Inno Setup into these IDEs and Graphical Installer which is skinning engine for installers.

Upvotes: 1

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