Free and Open Source
Inno Setup is available for free, and its source code is open for developers to modify and customize to suit their needs.
Extensive Customization
It offers extensive customization options, such as custom wizard pages, scripting capabilities via Pascal Script, and the ability to create custom installations.
Rich Feature Set
Inno Setup supports a wide range of features including disk spanning, password protection, uninstall capabilities, and silent installs.
Robust Documentation
The software comes with comprehensive documentation and a detailed help file, making it easier for users to understand and utilize its features.
Active Community
Inno Setup has a large and active community that provides support, contributes to forums, and develops add-ons, enhancing the software’s utility.
Small Footprint
The setup packages created with Inno Setup are generally small and lightweight, which is advantageous for faster downloads and installations.
I’ve had to do this before and it some what sucks but if you do have a look at Inno Setup.
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10 months ago
Use Inno Setup. It’s comparably sized, VSCode uses it and GOG.com uses customized builds of it (it’s open-source but written in Delphi), and it has a much more declarative (though still extensible) approach that does do stuff like uninstall tracking by default.
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over 1 year ago
We eventually settled on a combination of InnoSetup with InnoSetuo Dependency Installer and NetSparkle which offered a much cleaner experience and use of AzureAD Authentication for Azure Storage Blobs (for updates) as well as InTune Deployments with proper version detection.
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over 1 year ago
You don’t typically make these things yourself from scratch, you use a tool that does it for you. E.g. InnoSetup: https://jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php.
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over 1 year ago
The two most popular such installers are Inno Setup and NSIS. Inno is much easier to use (and will handle most tasks automatically), while NSIS creates somewhat smaller installers (but requires you to basically micromanage everything).
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over 1 year ago
It has been a long time since I made any installers so things probably changed since then. But Inno setup was very good previously and I see that it is already mentioned in this thread. I’ve also used NSIS extensively in the past. Might be worth a look.
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over 1 year ago
Before we stopped developing Desktop Applications, NetSparkle was our preferred choice but you have to provide your own installer (we used InnoSetup.
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over 1 year ago
It’s intended to be an installer creator similar to Inno Setup, but for DOS, and I want it to be something that can be used in situations where it needs to not crowd the actual content off a 720K floppy disk.
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over 1 year ago
The installer is done using excellent and popular Inno Setup (https://jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php). It will install CGE to a user directory, like C:UsersUSERNAMEAppDataLocalProgramsCastle Game Engine, where it will likely live along other software like VS Code that is also installed by InnoSetup for this user. The installer automatically creates menu and desktop shortcuts, shows you the license summary, runs…
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over 1 year ago
If you want an actual “installer”, check out Inno Setup. It will take your WinPython or PyInstaller directory and install it like a real program, including creating shortcuts and all the rest if you want it to.
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over 1 year ago
If so, Inno Setup would be the most novice-friendly of the big-name choices available for free.
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over 1 year ago
I use pyinstaller. Then for Windows I use inno setup https://jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php to create a Windows installer.
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almost 2 years ago
I used Inno Setup for many years and was always very happy with it.
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almost 2 years ago
Assuming these are Windows users I would use Inno Setup to create Windows Installers. https://jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php There is a wizard that makes Inno setup very easy to use it creates a professional looking Windows Installer.
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almost 2 years ago
There’s many options to create installation setups. The most common ones are Inno Setup, NSIS and for the MSI format there’s quite a few. You can generate MSI from Visual Studio when you’re developing a program and you can also use the Windows built-in iexpress utility to wrap it in an EXE file. Here’s a tutorial for that.
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about 2 years ago
Another tip for creating/distributing Windows apps is to use Inno Setup https://jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php Inno Setup will compress the code, and created a professional looking Windows installer, add you app to the app list in Windows and create the uninstaller. It is very easy to use.
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about 2 years ago
You can use pyinstaller to create an exe, and bundle ffmpeg. For Windows I like to use inno Setup for creating a Windows Installer. https://jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php.
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about 2 years ago
Godot_game.iss (Example project file for an Inno Setup installer for Windows).
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about 2 years ago
You could use Inno Setup to easily build an installer for Windows. It’s not .msi, but it’s much easier to use than anything MSI I’ve found that you don’t have to pay for.
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over 2 years ago
If you’re even more tech savvy and want the process to be identical to GoG after that first install, you can make your own installer without steam with something like Inno Setup, you can even tell the program to install the redistributables for you so that you don’t have to do that manually, of course that’s extra work that isn’t needed but if the objective is to make future installations identical to GoGs you…
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over 2 years ago
I mean I can build the cross platform installer by my self. anyway, I found GUI installer that will work for me, inno setup is the option for windows, thank you !
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over 2 years ago
