Windows Installer Program

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I am seriously considering writing a program in Euphoria that can install a program on Windows, add it to the Start Menu, Desktop, and Taskbar, and add whatever registry entries are necessary. I would use FluidAE for the GUI. It would be nice if programs written in Euphoria didn't have to depend on non-Euphoria installation tools. What do you all think? What would it take to get this working? If anyone has any useful bits of code, I would happy to incorporate them into the project.

I can think of a few things that would be needed:

  • Elevating privileges
  • Reading/writing the registry entries
  • Creating shortcut files
  • Accessing system folders, system variables, and other operating system information
  • Perhaps, use 7-Zip to make a self-extracting file, which would contain:
    • setup.exe (a bound euphoria program)
    • files that will be copied to the installation location
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