Post #1332106
2026-02-22 22:39 UTC
@herzenschein That's basically what I ended up with for my Qt app (just with InnoSetup instead of NSIS since the former had a nice GitHub Action). Using MSI was strongly discouraged by everyone, and I now know why ^^
Definitely kudos to the people maintaining MSYS2 and its packages, it is a great piece of software 🙂
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@neal@social.gompa.me 2026-02-23 00:48
@matk @herzenschein The Windows conventional installer stacks these days are all MSI based except NSIS and InnoSetup. I personally used NSIS for Windows stuff, but lots of people use WiX or layers on top of WiX for creating installer packages. Fedora maintains a package for cross-compiling NSIS installers from Linux, so I continue to use NSIS for my Windows stuff. WiX is piles of pain, and getting help from the WiX folks is... unfun.