Christopher Faylor writes: > Anyone know of a suitable, free setup-like utility that could be > pressed into service for use with cygwin?
NSIS has already been mentioned. The other open-source utility I know of is Inno Setup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php). But if you really want to do yourself and your users a favor, you will find some way to produce .msi packages (see http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html#msi). MSI is Microsoft's standard, and it provides several nice things automatically, such as "Add/Remove Programs", unattended installation, integration with SuS, and so on. MSI also has a model for "components" which you might be able to leverage. The only problem is that the free tools for producing MSI packages are fairly nascent. See, for instance, <http://izfree.sourceforge.net/> and <http://msi2xml.sourceforge.net/>. - Pat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/