Inno Setup is a software tool that provides users the means to create professional Windows installers in a simple manner.
The application has a straightforward installation process, and once installed it provides guidance for creating your desired installments. The GUI is not sophisticated, but it's well-built, having properly organized page sections and responsive buttons, and consumes a low amount of system resources.
Inno Setup offers extensive support for both administrative and non-administrative installations and supports the creation of shortcuts, registries, and INI entries. In addition to that, the installer is able to register DLL/OCX's and type libraries, use shared files counting, replace in-use files, and compare the file version info.
In order to create an installer, you need to fill in basic information about the program, set the base folder, provide the path to the executable file and make some further program customizations.
In conclusion, Inno Setup is a useful software solution for creating setup builders, though it does require a significant learning curve, and the interface is slightly interesting.
v6.0 [Aug 4, 2018]
- 6.0: Improved support for administrative vs. non administrative install mode.
- 6.0: Overridable install mode by the end user at runtime (example if PrivilegesRequired is set to admin.)
- 6.0: Improved support for side-by-side installations without the odd side effects you would get in previous versions.
- 6.0: Optional support for a resizable wizard window.
- 6.0: New optional modern wizard style (example.)
- 6.0: Other changes for a more modern look to Setup, Uninstall, and the Compiler IDE.
- 6.0: New light and dark themes, new toolbar icons and new per-monitor DPI awareness mode for the Compiler IDE (light theme example, dark theme example.)
- 6.0: Event attributes, making it possible to have multiple implementations of the same event function in your script.
- 6.0: Support for 64-bit mode on Windows 10 on ARM.
- 6.0: Task dialog support for the [Code] section.
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