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Wiki page [msi] by mario 2014-12-16 16:49:12.

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### <kbd>msi</kbd>

The [exe](wiki/exe) target is just a plain zip SFX, even though it looks like an installer already. (Still suitable for small projects). Windows users however may wish to have proper `.msi` installers instead.

 * Now this is an obvious target, has been covered in the fpm issues or mailing list already.

 * Use [msitools](https://wiki.gnome.org/msitools)

    * Is the simplest alternative so far.

    * But is still woefully hard to build and distribute. (Vala with GObject introspection make it unsuitable for static builds.)

    * And lastly doesn't actually provide an installer GUI. Generated MSIs are a plain text-based extractor still.


#### Note

I'm not actually a Windows user; so don't care enough about this. It's still a sensible feature to have for `fpm`.


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