Installer making program.

posted on February 8th, 2010, 12:19 am

I found one!  Here it is.  Its open source, and great!  Really easy to use if you can figure out the folder order, and very customizable if you can code c++ plugins.  Did I mention its FREE!

Here is the link

If it works for everyone else, It would be great if this could be stickied so its easy to find

posted on February 8th, 2010, 12:21 am

So it makes Auto-Installers? As in, Programs which can only be used once, on a completely unmodded game without ruining it?

posted on February 8th, 2010, 12:45 am

well, sort of... you can use the installers as many times as you want, make as many as you want.  It is more of an auto extractor. You select a .ZIP folder and it compiles it and the folders in it in order to make it into an exe.  Then when you run the. exe, you can extract the files where ever you want.  If you have all the folders right, you can use it to install mods and such, but they will overwrite files already in the game

There is a plugin somewhere that makes it into a patcher so it can edit already present files instead of overwriting them, but I don't need that for now.  I am using it for my BSG addon atm

posted on February 8th, 2010, 1:19 am

*downloaded*

This should come very handy...

posted on February 8th, 2010, 1:20 am

This is probably what you're look'en for, just read the description


http://nsis.sourceforge.net/VPatch_plug-in

posted on February 8th, 2010, 10:59 am

nsis is clearly not the easiest way to create an installer for some, as you have to do that by writing a script file. personally i think it is a very good piece of software and a very powerful, too - the fleet operations setup also is based on nsis.

there are some GUIs for nsis available where you can basically create your installer script just with your mouse but these of course can have there limits compared to writing the script directly.

posted on February 8th, 2010, 11:53 am

an easier to use install creator is
Clickteam.com - Creative Tools for the Creative Age

posted on February 8th, 2010, 3:44 pm

Really?  I found it easy.  you don't have to make a script, you can just use a zip file instead.  but I'll look at blades too

posted on February 8th, 2010, 5:41 pm

click team is easier to organise as u can make proffesional installers without scripts (but u cnt force it to check for the cd before installing

posted on February 8th, 2010, 9:48 pm

yeh, It seems alot more professional, but the otherone I put in is simpler, and you can add all sorts of cool stuff into it.

I will most  likely use yours though.