LiftInstall =========== [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/j-selby/liftinstall.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/j-selby/liftinstall) - Usage Documentation: https://liftinstall.jselby.net/ An installer for your application. Designed to be customisable to the core, hookable from external applications, and have a decent UI. This is designed to be a more modern interpretation of Qt's Installer Framework, which has several issues: - Hard to develop on and poorly documented - Hardcoded package listing format, requires very specific setups for packages, packages must be built using their tool - Poorly supported, with rare updates and a large list of bugs Building -------- For more detailed instructions, look at the usage documentation above. There are are few system dependencies depending on your platform: - For all platforms, `cargo` should be available on your PATH. [Rustup](https://rustup.rs/) is the recommended way to achieve this. Stable or Nightly Rust works fine. - For Windows (MSVC), you need Visual Studio installed. - For Windows (Mingw), you need `gcc`/`g++` available on the PATH. - For Mac, you need Xcode installed, and Clang/etc available on the PATH. - For Linux, you need `gcc`/`g++`, `webkit2gtk`, and `libssl`. For Ubuntu 18.04 this would look like: ```bash apt install -y build-essential libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libssl-dev ``` In order to build yourself an installer, as a bare minimum, you need to: - Add your favicon to `static/favicon.ico` - Modify the bootstrap configuration file as needed (`config.PLATFORM.toml`). - Have the main configuration file somewhere useful, reachable over HTTP. - Tweak `package.metadata.winres` metadata in `Cargo.toml` - Run: ```bash cargo build --release ``` Contributing ------------ PRs are very welcome. Code should be run through [Rustfmt](https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustfmt) before submission. License ------- LiftInstall is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License, which can be found in [LICENSE](LICENSE).