Installation Setups

[Mr Earl]

What is the best way to put together an Installation Setup for a pure masm32 generated set of .exe's?
Is there a recommended program?  I have no prior experience creating installation packages, so any
tips will be greatly appreciated.

[Vortex]

Hi Mr Earl,

Free Extractor is a nice tool able to create SFX archives from zip files with small overhead:

FreeExtractor is the easiest way to create self-extracting archives for Windows from existing ZIP files. It is an excellent open-source solution for packaging software programs and for distributing files to friends and colleagues over the Internet.

http://www.disoriented.com/FreeExtractor

Nsis by Nullsoft is also another nice tool to create installation packages:

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a tool that allows programmers to create such installers for Windows. It is released under an open source license and is completely free for any use.

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/

Jordan Russel's Inno Setup is a popular tool:

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

[Mr Earl]

Thanks Vortex, I'll look into those programs. 

[hutch--]

Mr Earl,

It depends on what you want the installer to look like. Simple installs can be done wth WINRAR but you write your own as well using either WINRAR or 7ZIP to make the actual archive and write your own front end to run the archive.

[Farabi]

 :U Great vortex. Nice information.