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NSIS - Open Source System To Create Windows Installers

NSIS

I post before about Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset that is a great tool and very powerful, but not so friendly.

Here is NSIS Install System,
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS is also very powerful, better UI and easy to modify and use.
You can easily create Installer from Zip files or NSI (There is a lot of examples in the folder)

*** NSIS does not support Command-Line, Wix Does!

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Posted: Sep 02 2008, 04:10 PM by Shai Raiten | with 3 comment(s)
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Amir Szekely said:

Both the compiler and the generated installers support command line. Check out chapter 3 in the documentation.

# September 4, 2008 2:54 PM

Shai Raiten said:

Yes you right, Didn't saw this one...

Thanks

# September 4, 2008 6:07 PM

EDF said:

I just went and read chapter 3, and that is just a few fixed options.  That is not a real command line installer.  I should be able to configure custom flagging options which launch pre-install, install, and post-install tasks.  You can do that in the NSIS GUI, but not the command line (according to the NSIS user file - which you have to download and install the whole NSIS package just to read).

I will now look at WiX to see if it can do that.

# October 22, 2008 5:22 PM
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