Hi all,
I wanted to create a native-looking installer for my apps.
I looked at izpack, which seems really good - but the problem is that it creates rather hefty installers (overhead from the ‘simple’ example was somewhere to the tune of 600kb).
Does anyone have a suggestion for an installer generator that has a more minimal foot print? It should be at the very least able to create shortcuts on windows & be able to run on linux & mac os x.
-Ido.
600KB overhead is really minimal in my opinion… are you sure you want to spend a lot of time to get down to, say, 400KB?
You could also use upx on that installer. http://upx.sourceforge.net/
It compresses exe’s and dlls and what not…
No, I want to get down to 30k-40k.
My apps are all below 100Kb.
The problem is that on windows a lot of anti virus software would report a upx compressed exe as a virus.
I’m thinking of just using non-platform independent installers for each platform - NSIS for example only has 37kb overhead on windows, and on mac os you generally don’t use installers but just pack things up in a dmg.
I’m sure I’ll find something small for linux too.