Editing Developing and Distributing wxPerl Applications on Windows (section)

== Creating Installers for Windows EXEs ==
Professional Windows programs are expected to provide installers. This section will be developed as I figure out how to do this. A few notes:

* Strawberry Perl itself uses '''[https://wixtoolset.org/ WiX Toolset]''' (Windows Installer XML Toolset) to generate its MSI installer (see [https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/blob/master/share/msi/MSI_main-v2.wxs.tt here])
* '''[https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Main_Page NSIS]''' (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is another option - ([https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Category:Tutorials tutorials], [https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Category:Code_Examples examples], [https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Screenshots screenshots]) - it also has its own IDE for visually designing installers! [https://nsis.sourceforge.io/NSIS_Dialog_Designer See more here].
* A possible "old school" approach, may be to use Office'97 Office Developer Edition (ODE) - via Access'97 there is an installer builder - this is a last resort and still needs to be verified to work for non-Access distributions
* [https://jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php Inno Setup] ([https://github.com/jrsoftware/issrc github]) - ''Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs by Jordan Russell and Martijn Laan. First introduced in 1997, Inno Setup today rivals and even surpasses many commercial installers in feature set and stability.''
* [https://www.revenera.com/install/products/installshield InstallShield] (commercial - software monetization services)