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msys2 / msys2-installer

The one-click installer for MSYS2

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Give NSIS a try #3

Open lazka opened 4 years ago

lazka commented 4 years ago

NSIS would give us

Greater flexibility during the installation process
Smaller installer size (no Qt)
Maybe silent CLI installation

jeroen commented 3 years ago

We use innosetup to ship R and rtools (which is a modified version of msys2): https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/

The script to create the installer is here: https://github.com/r-windows/rtools-installer

lazka commented 3 years ago

Thanks. The upside of nsis is that we have it in the repo and it can be build from source, so I'd still like to try that first. If it turns out to be not working your scripts will come in handy :)

bparbhu commented 3 years ago

I'm also building a similar thing for installing Cmdstan on Windows through an executable file. If you have something running let me know I would love to take that approach to installing Cmdstan.