Re: [Mingw-users] Equivalent to InstallShield for mingw32 apps?

[Paul W. <pa...@mi...>]

Oscar Fuentes wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hp...@zy...> writes:
> 
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Is there any equivalent to InstallShield for mingw32 apps, i.e. a
>>way to get package installed and registered with the Windows
>>application registry (so it can be cleanly uninstalled, DLL usage
>>tracked, etc?)
> 
> 
> InstallShield is an installer and MinGW is a software development
> package. MinGW produces executable files and you use InstallShield (or
> any other installer) for distributing that executables. MinGW itself
> has nothing to do with installers. If you are worried about dll
> dependencies, InstallShield should be able to track them as it does
> with any other Win32 executable. Deployment of MinGW executables is
> quite straightforward. It mainly depends on *your* files. BTW, I'll
> advise you to *not* put MinGW dll's (like mingwm10.dll) on the
> system/system32 directory.
> 


There are open source installers. I know of two (I can recommend the first)

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

http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/


Regards

Paul