Free installer

[yomyom]

Can anyone recommend a good free installer for delphi6 and sql2000 server?
Thanks in advance.
yomi.

 

[EricDraven]

Several users in this forum have mentioned Innosetup in previous posts. From memory it is free and simple to use. Could be wrong but I think its Stretchwickster who uses it!

Arte Et Labore

 

[yomyom]

Thank you for your reply.
How do I get Innosetup? Do you have a link to it?
Appreciate your help.
Yomyom.

 

[Oppenhiemer]

Hi.. you can download the software from here..

http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

Opp.

 

[Stretchwickster]

Sorry...it's not me (unless I've been posting untruths in my sleep!).

Clive

http://www.kucu.co.uk

Ex nihilo, nihil fit (Out of nothing, nothing comes)

 

[sggaunt]

Hi
I use it and can recomended it.
Tonhu, has been heard to sing it's praises, but I can't remember where I first heard of it (It was in this forum)
you do need the 'Inno setup extensions' version this enables you to do registry writes and some other stuff which is useful.

On the downside (this put me off at first)you need to learn the scripting language (then again it is Pascal).

I made my own setup wizard for the inno compiler (with Delphi) so now I can just click a few buttons and get all the power and ease of IS without any of the expense.

Steve.

 

[TonHu]

Or you could get the IS 4 beta version, that includes the Pascal scripting and other features of the extension version. ;-) s-)

HTH
TonHu

 

[Oppenhiemer]

Is IS 4 beta version Freeware TonHu ? Just wondering.. Could see that it was possible to download an Evaluation version, but that was all.

Opp.

 

[TonHu]

AFAIK it's still freeware and will stay that way. Don't dare to add 'forever' tough. It's *much* easier to use than InstallS&^%$d, and has great free support (newsgroups). That last feature alone is probably keeping it freeware as well ;-)

IS4: Now that multi-lingual options have been incorporated, and solid-compression is available, not much is gonna stop it now... P-)

HTH
TonHu

 

[Oppenhiemer]

Lol.. sorry - my mistake.. when you said "IS 4 Beta" I thought you meant InstallShield 4 Beta . Yes Inno Setup is the business I agree.

Opp.

 

[TonHu]

Opp.

Sorry I wrote "IS", instead I should have used InnoSetup, ofcourse. Got the habbit of completely ignoring InstallS*&^%d since I switched to InnoSetup

HTH
TonHu

 

[michaenh]

Well then I got to try Inno Setup and see how it is.

Thanks guys!

cheers,
mha

 

[sggaunt]

Just to tidy things up TonHu was the first on this subject back in Feb 2002!!.
Since then it would seem that Inno has got better and Install Shield has got worse.
The 'IS' thing confused me as well.

Steve.

 

[TonHu]

Ok, I'll fixup my use of language in respect to InnoSetup.







[rotfl]

(Sorry, just lost myself, and my wife picked me back up s-) )

TonHu

 

[yomyom]

I have tried Inno setup and its fine.
I realised that I had a copy of Installshield express for D4.
I tried it, and after some stutters, I found that Its also ok. The only thing I've had to do is to physically point to the files related to D6( and delete the ones that point to D4), and bingo....it works fine.
Thanks for your answers...
Yomi.