InstallAware Multi-Platform Features

• Three Major Platforms: Code and compile natively on Linux, Apple Mac, and Microsoft Windows. Build for any platform from any environment. You will be able to build Mac installers on a PC, and vice versa.
• Advanced Dialog Editing: Enjoy a dialog editor virtually identical to its Windows Installer brethren, with the same ease of use, drag & drop design experience, and visual configuration.
• Conditionally Flowing Setup Script: Code, commands, and syntax to remain as similar as possible to InstallAware‘s existing scripting language, offering a zero learning curve.
• Native Binaries: No JRE required, producing zero dependency setups for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X (including M1 silicon), Solaris (Intel & Sparc), FreeBSD, and more.
• Native IDEs: Run and edit projects directly on Intel x86, AMD64/x86-64, SPARC, ARM, and AArch64 platforms. Best of all, compile setups that run on any target using any IDE on any platform.
• Familiar Scripting Forms: Use your existing InstallAware scripting skills and rich built-in actions to build an intelligently branching setup with high compatibility for existing code forms.
• Two-Way Integrated IDE: Visual designers emit XML code, and changes made the human editable XML are reflected back in the visual designers.
• Editable Dialogs: Rich customization options for your setup user interface delivers a stellar user experience and makes a lasting, positive first impression.
• Agile: XML project scripts, command line builds, and an integrated visual debugger deliver full support for continuous integration in a developer friendly solution.
• Automatic Updates: Continuous and unattended delivery for your end-users means less manual maintenance hassle and reduced support costs.
• GUI, Text, and Silent Setups: Full support for console based and remote installations, as well as silent setups for unattended/scripted deployment scenarios.
• Web Friendly: Advanced LZMA(2) compression with BCJ2 and Heuristic filters minimize payloads, while bits may be sourced as usual from Web Media Blocks hosted as ordinary downloads on any server.
• Suite Installers: Visually combine multiple packages into a single multi-platform installer, where each package is bound to its own de-selectable feature at runtime.