Making an installer?

[XmetallicaXguitarstX]

If I were to make a mod and wanted to share it with my friends, what is the easiest way of doing that? Can you make like an installer or something? How?

[HebrewHammer2]

Re: Making an installer?

You could probally host the file on an FTP server. Or unless you are talking about extracting it onto your desktop. If that's the case then yes an installer would be a good ideal.

[GlobalFear]

Re: Making an installer?

Advanced - Nullsoft - http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page
Simple - InstallCreator - http://www.softaward.com/1312.html

[jdrou]

Re: Making an installer?

One free installer creator is Inno Setup: http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
Another one that many BF2 mods seem to use is Click Team Install Creator: http://www.clickteam.com/eng/installcreator.php
(That's the home site of the InstallCreator that GlobalFear posted.)

[KrayboX]

Re: Making an installer?

i use winrar, u can make a .exe =D

[imported_Ph1L]

Re: Making an installer?

If I remember right, when I once made mods for Mohaa Servers, I used ClickTeam.com's application.

Try it out here: http://www.clickteam.com/eng/installcreator.php


Easy to use :)


**baah.. I skipped reading jdrou's post, before I posted.

[jdrou]

Re: Making an installer?

i use winrar, u can make a .exe =D

An installer can do much more than just uncompressing a bunch of files otherwise they wouldn't exist. Potentially, they can read the registry to give you a default location to install to and at minimum most mods probably use them to create a shortcut on the desktop.

**baah.. I skipped reading jdrou's post, before I posted.

That will teach you to skip reading my posts.:)