Free installer?

[Guest]

Hi,

Been checking out nsis and inno out - but thats too much coding for me. Does any of you guys know a free simple installer - you think I should check out?

Tin2tin

[dragongodz]

Inno is quite easy to do a simple installer actually. yes it has heaps of options to do complex installers aswell but you dont need to use them if you dont want. there are even some basic example scripts you can easily modify to get you started.

[stax76]

Inno is no coding at all since it's ini/inf like which you can edit with a neat GUI called ISTool, that's the advantage of Inno, it's not script based and therefore can be edited entirely with a GUI. There is a script section where you can enter Pascal script, I'm not a fan of this language but it's still better than nsis script. The pre processor comes in handy if you like to make a generic scripts where you only have to define the application name and you can also read the version string from the binary with the pre processor. Inno can also use relative paths so it's possible to write truly generic setup projects which I prefer over the very basic assistant. (assuming the application really needs a setup)

[Guest]

Thanks! Istool might be the thing I'm after - looks easier to get started with. So thanks. :)
Tin2tin

[Nic]

The key with NSIS, is to find a opensource tool's installer that does a similar install to what you want to do, then use that .nsis file as a base....It's what I do :) Almost no coding/writing at all then...

-Nic