Nov 282004
Reading blogs on the Borland site, I stumbled upon a link to Inno Setup. The guy said “Inno Setup rocks!”, so I followed the link. Although I haven’t tried it yet, the feature list is impressive:
- Support for all 32-bit Windows versions in use today — Windows 95, 98, 2000, 2003, XP, Me, NT 4.0. (No service packs are required.)
- Supports creation of a single EXE to install your program for easy online distribution. Disk spanning is also supported.
- Standard Windows 2000/XP-style wizard interface.
- Customizable setup types, e.g. Full, Minimal, Custom.
- Complete uninstall capabilities.
- Includes integrated support for “deflate”, bzip2, and 7-Zip LZMA file compression. The installer has the ability to compare file version info, replace in-use files, use shared file counting, register DLL/OCX’s and type libraries, and install fonts.
- Creation of shortcuts anywhere, including in the Start Menu and on the desktop.
- Creation of registry and .INI entries.
- Integrated Pascal scripting engine.
- Support for multilingual installs.
- Silent install and uninstall.
- Full source code is available (Borland Delphi 2.0-5.0).
Especially when I add the line “Inno Setup is free!”.