Re: Installers

"Fr. Samuel Springuel" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.live
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Inno Setup can be scripted.  The Gregorio project uses Inno Setup to create its out-of-sequence Windows installer and I scripted it into a make target.  It requires wine to run on my MacOS machine, so the essential line in the recipe is: `wine 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\Inno Setup 6\ISCC.exe’ gregorio.iss`

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> On Jan 26, 2026, at 5:12 AM, Norbert Preining <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2026, Peter Flynn wrote:
>> https://hackaday.com/2025/12/11/creating-user-friendly-installers-across-operating-systems/
> 
> Well, it suggests Inno Setup https://jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php for
> Windows and is unhappy with NSIS which we use.
> 
> Now, the problem is that Inno Setup only works on windows, and cannot be
> scripted, which means it is completely useless for us.
> 
> What we need is:
> * scripted support
> * runs on Linux to produce Windows installers
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Norbert
> 
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