Open Source Installers

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. Being a user's first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of succesful software. With NSIS you can create such installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup your software. NSIS is script-based and allows you to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: you can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components, install or update shared components and more.

JSmooth creates standard Windows executable files (.exe) that smartly launch java applications. It makes java deployment much smoother and user-friendly, as it is able to find and run Java VMs by itself, or help the user get one if none are available.

mk-configure is a lightweight and easy for use build system, written in bmake (portable version of NetBSD make) and POSIX tools (shell, awk etc.).

NSISBI aims to remove the current 2GB limit found in NSIS. This version adds support for using a separate file for storing the install data, therefore allowing installer sizes up to a theoretical max size of 8EB (this is controlled by NSIS_CONFIG_EXTERNAL_FILE_SUPPORT, this is turned on by default). On versions before 7069-1, the compiler (makensis) is designed to run on 64 bit machines as this is the feature needed to make installers bigger than 2GB. On versions before 7208-1, source files added to the installer are limited to 2GB per file (this is controlled by NSIS_CONFIG_LARGE_FILE_SUPPORT, this is turned on by default). This project is the result of several different experiments focused on relieving the 2GB limit in NSIS, so it's still a work in progress. I'll try to keep it up to date with each major NSIS release.

This project (licensed under LGPLv3) provides full documented procedures to build PostgreSQL from sources (and some additional extensions / Foreign Data Wrappers: sqlite_fdw, www_fdw, mysql_fdw, ldap_fdw, couchdb_fdw, oracle_fdw, odbc_fdw...) using MinGW-w64 (recent versions of gcc - 4.8.0 or later). It also provides ready made binaries/releases targetting Win32 as well as Win64 (Windows7). Note: Installers are also released to make easy the installation of the PostgreSQL extensions mentioned above in PostgreSQL installations made from the official Windows 7 - 32-bit and 64-bit - installers (those extensions releases - DLLs - being fully compatible with the said installers).

One-JAR(TM) is a simple solution to a vexing problem in Java: how to distribute an application as a single jar-file, when it depends on multiple other jar-files. One-JAR uses a custom classloader to discover library jar files inside the main jar.

A Windows Installer Database To XML Bi-Directional Converter. The command line tool msi2xml converts Windows Installer Databases (.msi) to text based XML files. The complementary tool xml2msi reconstructs the .msi from the XML file.

This project is for a PE Builder plug-in for the Ext2Fsd software. I decided to develope this solution in order to be able to scan ext2/ext3 partitions using KAV/KIS anti-virus Rescue Disk which is created with PE Builder.

PHPRPMs is a collection of tools required to build PHP extensions "missing" from your RedHat/Fedora distribution (such as mhash, mcrypt, FDFtk, mssql, SQLite, APC, APD, dBase, filePro and others) as RPM add-ons to your "factory" PHP packages.

WixTool is a Windows GUI Tool which encapsulates Windows Installer XML (WiX) projects creation, editing and compiling using Wix precompiled binaries.

Xinstaller is a program written in C for Linux. It will allow you to make an installer file for your programs. The user will have only to start the executable and to answer some easy questions(mostly "next" :)).

Android Applications Manager is a third party software to manage applications from your Android mobile phone to your computer and from your computer to your mobile.

Creates Installers using Ant by configuring an XML file (no java required): The installer collects user input, then run specific Ant targets from a build.xml file. Runs in a Swing GUI or on the command line.

ApacheBuilder builds Apache (with optional modules of Mod_SSL and Mod_Perl) from sources, prompting for config params of location, etc. When done, it starts Apache and verifies it all works ok.

AutoCad WIX Installer is a WIX installer with custom actions to help with the installation of AutoCAD dotNet based addins. It tries support the WIX installer and detect the Aec AutoCAD version(s) to correctly register the dotNet plugin.

"Better Extension for RPM" is a buildroot installation tool compatible with YUM written in C. It is fast and system resources friendly. The main audience are users, developers or administrators of Red Hat/Fedora Core Linux operating systems.

BeyondInstall is a powerful multi-platform Java installer builder that generates native installers for Java applications on any OS. The tool features rich functions, robust extensibility,beautiful user interface and easy of use.

The Build Installer provides a lightweight GUI installer application to go over an existing configure/make/install source package. Its purpose is to make installing software from source easier and faster for end users, particularly non-developers.

BTS is a Build Template System designed for building packages for th common packing systems in use by current distributions based on a single XML package description. We are finally restarting development after a long break due to NeOS work.

ChecklistAgent - Unit testing for your runtime environment.

Confix is a build tool for source code packages, on top of GNU Automake. It inspects the package's source code, tracks inter package dependencies, propagates checks across package boundaries, and finally writes Automake input files for the maintainer.

CrixerSoft InstallSphex Compiler is a professional Cross-Plattaform and Open Source for the development of Installers Developed in Lazarus, Supports Win32 only for now.

Darrt provides simple deployment packaging for database code, akin to that provided by JAR, WAR and EAR files in J2EE.

This is a command line tool that list all registered occurences of a DLL from the windows registry and allows to unregister them all with regsvr32.

Simple toolkit to build debian-like packages.