BitRock InstallBuilder

Developer tool creates installers for your applications
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  • Demo
  • Price:
  • USD 595.00 | BUY the full version
  • Publisher Name:
  • BitRock Inc
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://www.bitrock.com/
  • Operating Systems:
  • Mac OS X 10.2 or later
  • File Size:
  • 121.4 MB

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BitRock InstallBuilder Description

Developer tool creates installers for your applications BitRock InstallBuilder is a tool that allows you to create easy-to-use installers for Mac OS X, Linux (x86/PPC), Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, FreeBSD, and Windows applications.The generated installer for an application has native look and feel and no external dependencies. BitRock installers can be run in GUI, text, and unattended modes. It has free, fully functional licenses for open source projects. Here are some key features of "BitRock InstallBuilder": · Multiplatform Support - BitRock installers are native binaries that can run on Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris (Intel & Sparc), AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, and Linux (Intel x86/x64, Itanium, s390 & PPC). Contact us for legacy Windows 95 support and additional platform support such as Tru64, and operating systems running Itanium IA64 · Desktop Integration - BitRock installers provide native look and feel and desktop integration for Windows, KDE and Gnome. · RPM Integration - BitRock installers can register your software with the RPM package database, combining ease of use with the powerful RPM package management system. · RPM and DEB generation (beta) - In addition to creating native executables that can register with the RPM subsystem, BitRock InstallBuilder can generate RPM and Debian packages that can be installed using the native package management tools. · Optimized - BitRock installers are optimized in size and speed and do not require a self-extraction step, reducing download, startup and installation time. · No External Dependencies - BitRock installers are single-file, self-contained native executables with no external dependencies and minimal overhead. Unlike competing products, all BitRock installers are truly native code and do not require bundling a Java Runtime Environment. · Ease of Use - BitRock installers provide an intuitive and easy to use interface on all platforms, even for end users without previous Linux experience. · Ease of Development - BitRock InstallBuilder includes an easy to learn, easy to use GUI environment. Design, build and test installers with the click of a button. · Time Saving Functionality - For advanced users, a friendly XML project format supports source control integration, collaborative development and customizing projects both by hand and using external scripts. A command line interface allows you to automate and integrate the building process. QuickBuild functionality allows you to update installers in a few seconds, without having to repack the entire application. · Built-in actions - BitRock InstallBuilder provides convenient built-in actions for commonly required installation functionality such as autodetecting a Java(tm) Runtime, changing file permissions and ownership, substituting text in a file, adding environment variables, adding directories to the path, creating symbolic links, changing the Windows registry, launching external scripts and so on. · Crossplatform Build Support - The installer builder tool can run on Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, IRIX, and Linux (Intel x86/x64, Itanium, s390, PPC) and generate installers for all target platforms from a single project file. Create all your installers from a single build environment! · Customization - BitRock installers can be customized in a variety of ways, both graphically and in functionality. · Multiple Installation modes - BitRock installers provide: several GUI modes with native look-and-feel, for installation in a variety of desktop environments, a text-based installation mode, for console-based and remote installations, and a silent/unattended install mode which can be used for integration in shell scripts for automated deployment. · Uninstall Functionality - An uninstall program is created as part of every installation, allowing users to easily uninstall the software. As the installer, it can be run in a variety of modes. On Windows, uninstall functionality can also be accessed from the Add/Remove Program entry in the Control Panel. · Startup Failure Detection - BitRock installers will automatically detect the best installation mode available. Users also have the option to manually select a mode. · Language and Platform Independent - BitRock installers can install applications written in any language, including: Java, PHP, Perl, Python, C/C++ and .NET/Mono. · Multiple Language Support - BitRock installers support a variety of installation languages, including English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, Polish, Valencian, Catalan, Estonian, Slovenian, Romanian, Hungarian, Russian and Welsh. You can specify a default language or let the user decide. Please contact us if you require additional language support. What's New in This Release: · New dialog · New action to retrieve ACLs on Windows · New action · Added project property to mark locked files on Windows to be renamed instead of prompting the end-user to abort/retry/ignore · Fixed build-time memory errors produced by the usage of with big executables · Allow Autoupdate strings to be localized · Added and tags to action · Actions that modify the environment variables and PATH can now be applied to a particular user (Unix only) · Fixed masking the the original error · Fixed .desktop files on Unix not correctly working on some scenarios · Avoid locked files error when unpacking on Unix · Use SID for user default value on action · Added is_empty and is_not_empty tests to rule · Fixed registry actions not correctly resolving variables in their errors · Fixed Autoupdate tool not modifying Windows executable resources · Fixed some minor bugs in Autoupdate tool · Improved windows-x64 rule · Allow uninstaller icon to be customized · Fixed not being deleted after a successful rollback · Fixed validation failing in some environments · Fixed software version registry key not being updated after an upgrade · Give executable permissions to serialized .desktop files on Unix


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