Open Source C Installers for Windows

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.

An MFC based program designed to generate NSIS and MSI (using WiX) installer packages and quickly add/remove files, registry entries and other related items to be included in install packages.

XML Make is yet another attempt at creating a decent build system for a large variety of software projects. It is meant to replace all the functionality of the standard Autoconf/Automake/Make in an elegeant manner.

prtpacker is a tool for creating trees of program resources which can be compiled into your program. For example say your program needs an image 'image.png'. Instead of having to make sure 'image.png' is some where your program can find it you ca