

#BITROCK INSTALLBUILDER EVALUATION RESTRICTIONS SERIAL#
to validate a serial number), you need to use or action. Has anyone come across any issues with creating installers that installBuilder has been unable to handle For example very strict security on the client machine. I came across Bitrock a little while ago and thought the interesting bit was that it looks like it lets you create Apple installers from non-Apple platforms. InstallBuilder for Qt is an easy to use, multi-platform installation tool for packaging and deploying Qt-based applications. If it has to be done before running the installation (i.e. I have recently been tasked with finding a suitable installShield replacement and I am leaning towards InstallBuilder over Install4J and InstallAnywhere. Ivan Madrigal writes BitRock Releases InstallBuilder for Qt. The last step is not needed (uninstaller will simply skip the file if it is not present), but is a good practice to avoid deleting files customers may copy that would just have the same name.Īs for running the binary, if it is done after installation, you can simply invoke the action. InstallBuilder's compression is also better than zip, especially when LZMA is enabled, so this should also reduce the overall size of the installer.Ī complete example to package two zip archives is as follows: archive $/archive1.zip

This approach is better since the unzipping is done when building the installer and unpacked files are shipped. You can the files in and package the unzipped contents. Embedding zip files can be done in two ways.
