Re: [Audacity-devel] Windows installer topics

[Dave F. <dav...@co...>]

On Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:18 am, Dominic Mazzoni wrote:
> > Does Inno Setup build .msi packages?  I'm thinking that as far as I know
> > .msi packages take care of most of this stuff.  If not, how hard is it to
> > build one?  I've only used InstallShield (and a free software installer
> > that just does basic stuff), and the version I used didn't build .msi
> > packages.
>
> Last year Mark Tomlinson told us that only expensive commercial
> programs produce .msi packages.  It'd be great if that wasn't true
> anymore - a couple of sysadmins have asked if we had .msi files
> available so that they could install Audacity in a lab or corporate
> site automatically.

I'm gonna have to respectfully disagree with Mark Tomlinson.  :)  Microsoft 
makes an installer tool available that'll build self-installers and .msi 
packages.  I haven't used it, and I don't have a licensed copy of Visual 
Studio (which you're, uh, supposed to have), but here's a link.  We're 
probably too close to working up a 1.2 release, but this might be worth 
considering for builds after the 1.2 release.  (I'm gonna leave off the 
disclaimer that I might be on crack and/or not know what I'm talking about, 
you guys already know that, right?)  Also, maybe this wasn't available a year 
ago?  I don't know....

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/tools/vsi11/default.aspx

It occurs to me that you may not be able to use it with just Visual C++.

This one's free, with source provided, but not Free Software.
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~dbareis/makemsi.htm

Here's a page that lists free, Free, and proprietary installer packages.  (And 
yes, the commercial ones start at $499 and go over $1000 and certainly don't 
include source code)
http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/msi/authoring.htm

My personal favorite, although I've *never* used it, doesn't appear to support 
.msi packages.  But it does have *all* of the advanced features that were 
mentioned earlier in this thread.  (Yes, it's the one made by NullSoft of 
WinAMP fame, distributed under the zlib license)
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/site/Home.2.0.html

As with anything else, these tools are gonna be of varying quality and power, 
and it is easily possible that none of the free ones will meet the needs of 
Audacity.

On the other hand, anyone happen to know whether or not ppcompiler or Onboard 
C will compile with .prc resource files?  Failing that, know of any Free 
resource editor for PalmOS?  :)

Dave

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