Open Source C++ Installers

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution. Being a user's first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of succesful software. With NSIS you can create such installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup your software. NSIS is script-based and allows you to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: you can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components, install or update shared components and more.

Snappy Driver Installer is an application for installing/updating drivers on PCs running Microsoft Windows using driverpacks or included folders with drivers. It can be used to install drivers on newly assembled PCs at places where Internet isn't available. Users can also use the software to keep their drivers up to date.

Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on the Linux operating system. It uses Wine to facilitate this. Most users will prefer to use Proton provided by the Steam client itself. The source code is provided to enable advanced users the ability to alter Proton. For example, some users may wish to use a different version of Wine with a particular title. As the new Steam Play is still in Beta, it is recommended that you opt into the Steam Client Beta for the latest features and fixes. Proton works best with the latest graphics drivers. For some cutting edge games and graphical features, you may need drivers newer than what your distribution ships. Install and play games! We strongly recommend that most users use the production build of Proton.

JSmooth creates standard Windows executable files (.exe) that smartly launch java applications. It makes java deployment much smoother and user-friendly, as it is able to find and run Java VMs by itself, or help the user get one if none are available.

ISTool is a visual script editor/generator for Jordan Russell's Inno Setup compiler.

ISO2USB utility creates bootable USB drive from CentOS/RedHat 5.x/6.x installation disk or corresponding ISO image. Created USB drive may be used to perform installation on machines that lacks optical drive.

Squirrel is both a set of tools and a library, to completely manage both installation and updating your Desktop Windows application, written in either C# or any other language (i.e., Squirrel can manage native C++ applications). Squirrel uses NuGet packages to create installation and update packages, which means that you probably already know most of what you need to create an installer. Windows apps should be as fast and as easy to install and update as apps like Google Chrome. From an app developer's side, it should be really straightforward to create an installer for my app, and publish updates to it, without having to jump through insane hoops. Refer to our full list of goals for integrating, packaging, distributing, installing, and updating. See Contributing for additional information on building and contributing to Squirrel.

This project has moved to http://wixtoolset.org. The WiX toolset is a set of tools that builds Windows installation packages from text source code. The toolset supports a command line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build setup packages for the Windows platform.

WinRun4J is a Windows native launcher for your Java application. The goal is to provide a more professional deployment mechanism for Java apps on Windows.

vmdkutil is a utility to manage VMware sparse virtual disk files (.vmdk), creating, cloning, merging, etc.

This program mostly covers MS Windows Regedit functionality (some things are still missing, though). In fact, the only 'advanced feature' at this time is a search/replace function. ATTN Vista & 7,8,10 users! You must run this program as administrator for correct operation.

A Windows Installer Database To XML Bi-Directional Converter. The command line tool msi2xml converts Windows Installer Databases (.msi) to text based XML files. The complementary tool xml2msi reconstructs the .msi from the XML file.

Npackd (pronounced "unpacked") is an application store/package manager/marketplace for applications for Windows.

m23 is a free software distribution system (license: GPL), that installs (via network, starting with partitioning and formatting) and administrates (updates, adds / removes software, adds / removes scripts) clients with Debian, (X/K)Ubuntu and LinuxMint. It is used for deployment of Linux clients in schools, institutions and enterprises. The m23 server is controlled via a web interface. A new m23 client can be installed easily in only three steps. Group functions and mass installation tools make managing a vast number of clients comfortable. The integration of existing clients (with .deb-based distributions) into the system is possible, too. Client backup and server backup are included to avoid data loss. With the integrated virtualisation software, m23 can create and manage virtual m23 clients, that run on real m23 clients or the m23 server. Scripts and software packages (for installation on clients) can be created directly from the m23 web interface.

The Indian Linux Project Goal is to build a Indian language enabled Linux distro & applications with support for Indian Languages

JRunner lets your deployment fly. JRunner has been designed to get and run Windows and Java application from a webserver. JRunner automatically handles updates, driver installation if there are newer files to download. JRunner reduces the deployment cos

Inno Setup is a tool to create installers for Microsoft Windows applications. innoextract allows to extract such installers under non-Windows systems without running the actual installer using Wine. NOTE: NEW VERSIONS WILL NOT BE UPLOADED TO SOURCEFORGE! Instead, use the official website at http://constexpr.org/innoextract/

Linux Launcher for Games is a helper application designed to easily install and play old Windows game on Ubuntu based Linux distributions. To be able to use this application successfully, you will need game installation disks or disk image files and an Ubuntu based Linux operating system.

Armadeus is an OpenSource Hardware and Software project based on an ARM core (Freescale i.MX) and Linux. You can consult our wiki at http://www.armadeus.org to join our non profit association or our commercial website at http://www.armadeus.com .

At this point this project is mainly wpkg which is a replica of dpkg and apt-get that works under Microsoft Windows and Unices. Since version 0.7.0 it works very nicely as it includes most of the important functionality of dpkg (i.e. most everything except dselect functions.) Otherwise, the Unix GNU Windows is expected to be a large set of packages that wpkg can handle. Packages of all the software available under MinGW and GnuWin32 so you can painlessly build a complete Unix like environment under Microsoft Windows.

Various tools for MS Windows. Hide and show your windows with ShideWin. Uninstall programs faster with Safarp.

(NOW PRIMARILY HOSTED ON GITHUB @ https://www.github.com/keelanstuart/sfxPackager) sfxPackager allows you to create setup / install packages for Windows, with a user-friendly, project-based GUI and integrated Javascript interpreter featuring an extensive API for handling more complex install tasks. User's Guide: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRAVGjiJbSYUrOWB8jEzqG7hMwVbZqvCiAbVmOeL25hoEmN909H-BtGjEawmTMZLta5qHfhGydWDqQd/pub

This utility allows an IT professional to install several programs with a single click. It is designed to launch from a network share and suppress any Windows security questions about launching programs.

Moved to: https://github.com/vanderlee/Plugin-Setup Windows Setup tool specifically designed for installing PhotoShop compatible plug-ins. Will recognize all Windows PhotoShop plug-in compatible hosts and allow the user to pick which hosts the plug-in should be installed for.