What's a good installer to use with Blitz?
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| I need to make an installer for my game. I need something that will create directories and put an icon on the desktop. That sort of thing. |
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| Meaning what, exactly? An installer to install Blitz? Or an installer to use for installing your programs made WITH Blitz? If the latter, go for InnoSetup. Free, fast, and efficient. |
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| Another vote for innoSetup from me. |
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| Thanks! I'll check that out. What would one use for Mac and Linux? |
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| For mac, just create an app that can be dragged and dropped to the applications folder or wherever. Mac users are used also to get application in a dmg format, wich is an disk image file that contains the app folder. For Linux... long story, usually you'll have to create a deb or a rpm package, with the lists of dependent packages and... wel... deploying on linux is usually a nightmare. |
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| "innosetup" gets my vote too. There is also a gui-wizardy thing that bolts on to it called "istool" which makes using inno extra easy. As for linux just use an archive (tar/rar/zip) as most users know their way round and how to use the filesystem :) However, if its a complex app with loads of deps, libs, etc then a package like .deb or .rpm is always nice, but again, not essential. Most small games etc come as just a normal archive file. |
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| Another vote for Inno. |
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| another vote for inno, istool sounds cool. |
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| i work with http://www.createinstall.com (free). nice and easy! |
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| Innosetup and ISTool is what we use for flow. Very easy with istool. |
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| Inno Setup! It's ace! |
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