Hello coders,
Where I can find sources or articles about
'How to write installer and uninstaller'?
Thanks.
Where I can find sources or articles about
'How to write installer and uninstaller'?
Thanks.
There's a setup sdk for regular installation utilities, and then there's the new and improved Windows Installer sdk for the same thing, but much more rich in functionality, it doesn't require a lot of rewriting the wheel kind of things.
In either case, it's not an easy thing to create an installer for either of the sdk's. I saw the source code to a very simple installation utility that worked wonderfully with few features and functionality, just package and go... was about 20,000 lines of code. Likewise, for Windows Installer technology, a much more featuresome installer would be half that, as the whole toolkit is already written and apart of Windows 2000+ and can be installed onto any other platform easily...
The sdk's are freely available online or with the platform SDK...
Thanks,
_Shawn
In either case, it's not an easy thing to create an installer for either of the sdk's. I saw the source code to a very simple installation utility that worked wonderfully with few features and functionality, just package and go... was about 20,000 lines of code. Likewise, for Windows Installer technology, a much more featuresome installer would be half that, as the whole toolkit is already written and apart of Windows 2000+ and can be installed onto any other platform easily...
The sdk's are freely available online or with the platform SDK...
Thanks,
_Shawn
Get Inno Setup
I think www.innosetup.com.
I use it and so do many others , its free , easy to use and been improved many times and is still worked on. Probably one of the best home written projects I ever saw in terms of the amount of effort. Why its free beats me!
Also get hold of ISTool by another author for a graphical interface , very cool.
Bye.
I think www.innosetup.com.
I use it and so do many others , its free , easy to use and been improved many times and is still worked on. Probably one of the best home written projects I ever saw in terms of the amount of effort. Why its free beats me!
Also get hold of ISTool by another author for a graphical interface , very cool.
Bye.