innosetup 0.4.0.0

Requirements

• Python 2.5 or later

• py2exe

• pywin32

• InnoSetup

Features

• You can use your customized InnoSetup Script.

• installer metadata over setup() metadata

• generate AppId(GUID) from setup() metadata See the innosetup.InnoScript.appid() method.

• bundle exe and com dll and dependent libs and resources

• bundle msvcr and mfc and their manifest

• bundle all installed InnoSetup’s language file (If there is no valid [Languages] section.)

• create windows exe’s shortcut

• register com_server and service

• check the Windows version with Python version

• fix a problem py2exe.mf misses some modules (ex. win32com.shell)

An example

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe, innosetup

setup_iss = '''
[Setup]
Compression=lzma/ultra
SolidCompression=yes
'''

# All options are same as py2exe options.
setup(
    name='example',
    version='1.0.0.0',
    license='PSF or other',
    author='you',
    author_email='you@your.domain',
    description='description',
    url='http://www.your.domain/example', # generate AppId from this url
    options={
        'py2exe': {
            # `innosetup` gets the `py2exe`'s options.
            'compressed': True,
            'optimize': 2,
            'bundle_files': 3,
            },
        'innosetup': {
            # user defined iss file path or iss string
            'inno_script': setup_iss, # default is ''
            # bundle msvc files
            'bundle_vcr': True, # default is True
            }
        },
    com_server=[
        {'modules': ['your_com_server_module'], 'create_exe': False},
        ],
    # and other metadata ...
    )

Do the command setup.py innosetup. Then you get InnoSetup script file named distdistutils.iss and the installation file named distexample-1.0.0.0.exe.

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