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.

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 .

gRpmBuilder is a POWERFUL yet easy-to-use graphical program that will create rpm files and srpm files with a simple interface.

Xinstaller is a program written in C for Linux. It will allow you to make an installer file for your programs. The user will have only to start the executable and to answer some easy questions(mostly "next" :)).

"Better Extension for RPM" is a buildroot installation tool compatible with YUM written in C. It is fast and system resources friendly. The main audience are users, developers or administrators of Red Hat/Fedora Core Linux operating systems.

The Build Installer provides a lightweight GUI installer application to go over an existing configure/make/install source package. Its purpose is to make installing software from source easier and faster for end users, particularly non-developers.

BTS is a Build Template System designed for building packages for th common packing systems in use by current distributions based on a single XML package description. We are finally restarting development after a long break due to NeOS work.

The goal of the Embedded Debian Project is to make Debian GNU/Linux a natural choice for embedded Linux.

"Embedded Kit" is a toolkit/distro for Opensource Embedded Platform Developers which is reconfigurable and the modules contained within usable individually.

The goal of this project is to provide a method to build a bootable image for small embedded systems, based on the original package sources, most notably buildroot, and to snapshot the distribution and configuration files for repeatable builds.

LinBuild is a Python-based, simple and user-friendly build system for C/C++ on Linux/Unix. LinBuild adopts some concepts from Waf and CMake. LinBuild is simply a single script that depends only on Python.

Monolithor creates monolithic installers for Windows from a dependency tree of intermediate binary packages. Currently NSIS is used for creating the installer and the supported packages are the RPMs built by openSUSE.

RPM Workshop is for the experienced/professional packager. This tool will give the packager GUI access to take a new tar file and create a spec file and RPMS or open an exsisting spec file for updating.

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.

SPEC and Patches files for building RPMS

The project supplies a template or skeleton for mainly batch processsing applications which make use of the korn Shell (ksh / pdksh), Perl and other executables (see docs). Functionality @ shell/Perl level: logging, sending email to the support, ...

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.

makeutil is a set of portable public domain programs designed to support C/C++ projects. It provides tools for build operations outside of the normal compile/link pipeline. It is designed to be unobtrusively included directly in your own project.

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