Hi all,

I have no experience at all on deploying Lazarus app for Windows, because up to now I have always addressed to Linux platform. The few Windows

Now I need to deploy an application for Windows, which requires not only the executable, but also some auxiliary files. It would be nice to put everything in a subfolder of the Programs folder, and maybe to touch also something in the Window registry.

I have no idea of where to start from, in order to create a setup.exe which will take advantage of the Windows installer.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance,

Giuliano

Giuliano Colla wrote

I have no idea of where to start from, in order to create a setup.exe which will take advantage of the Windows installer.

Try InnoSetup. AFAIK Lazarus IDE setup is built with it as well.

Ondrej

I remember using these:

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

Regards,

Il 28/04/2017 00:55, Leonardo M. Ramé via Lazarus ha scritto:

I remember using these: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

Many thanks to you and to Ondrej.

Giuliano

Dear Giuliano:

When I finisf the design phase, I copy the executable and the auxiliary files in other folder: "executable".

Then I compress in a winrar, and in a self-extracting winrar. When deploy, I instruct the user to create/open the new folder "executable", copy the self-extracting and execute.

Yours
Ing. Héctor Fiandor Rosario

If you need installer in Microsoft Installation Package format (*.msi) then you can look at WiX toolset: http://wixtoolset.org and WixEdit: http://wixedit.sourceforge.net/
-Laco.

Il 28/04/2017 07:11, LacaK via Lazarus ha scritto:

If you need installer in Microsoft Installation Package format (*.msi) then you can look at WiX toolset: http://wixtoolset.org and WixEdit: http://wixedit.sourceforge.net/ -Laco.

Thanks again to everybody. I'll investigate what is more suitable for my case.

Giuliano

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Hello all.

I to use InnoSetup with Inno Script Studio
https://www.kymoto.org/products/inno-script-studio/screenshots

Best.

2017-04-28 14:51 GMT-03:00 coppolastudio via Lazarus <

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+1

IMHO, WIX is the best way to create Windows installer packages. It has the great advantage of using XML scripts to define the installation package. This allows you to put them under proper change control and makes it easy to copy and edit the script for each new application rather than start from scratch. The WIX toolset also runs under wine and with a FPC cross-compiler, it is possible to build both a Windows executable and the installer package under Linux. I have some applications that I deploy under both Windows and Linux and all the builds are performed from a single bash script under Linux. You can also use 7-zip to create a self-installer package from the .msi.

WiX also makes installing drivers painless. It fits nicely into the Makefile paradigm, so plays well with the rest of our build system, too.

Henry