Free install wizard software [closed]

Answer 1

The nullsoft scriptable install system is an open source solution that provides a very powerful and professional install system.

Answer 2

I was looking for a similar solution and found the new kid on the block to be InstallJammer. Open source, extremely friendly and powerful-looking (I say looking because I never actually finished using it on a project), able to produce installers for multiple platforms.

Actions in particular seemed very easy to set up.

If it were to live up to it's goals, it would easily give the other install solutions a run for their money.

Answer 3

I have been using Inno Setup for several years now. It's mature enough that it has a lot of plug-ins. I've found that the forums/newsgroups are very good at answering all the questions I've had so far.

Answer 4

The Nullsoft installer is free, powerful and very, very good.

Answer 5

There's the open source Nullsoft Installer which began with WinAmp, if I'm not mistaken.

For .NET development you may want to take a look at WiX, which Microsoft also open sourced. IT's good for those with continuous integration setups.

Answer 6

+1 for Inno. I was not a fan of NSIS/Nullsoft.

EDIT

the reason I did not like NSIS was the hoops I had to jump trough just to get the version information in the installer title/script. Basically you have to preprocess the scripts or run the install generator twice. Maybe they fixed it, maybe not. But what a hassle.

I also found that the versions of the plugins and the versions of the main component were brittle. For example, things didn't work well when mixed and matched/upgraded.

We had to keep a specific version of NSIS and the plugins we used in a repository to ensure we had them.