[Lazarus] How to deploy a Lazarus app for Windows?

[Henry Vermaak]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 09:00:14AM +0100, Tony Whyman via Lazarus wrote:
> +1
> 
> IMHO, WIX is the best way to create Windows installer packages. It has the
> great advantage of using XML scripts to define the installation package.
> This allows you to put them under proper change control and makes it easy to
> copy and edit the script for each new application rather than start from
> scratch. The WIX toolset also runs under wine and with a FPC cross-compiler,
> it is possible to build both a Windows executable and the installer package
> under Linux. I have some applications that I deploy under both Windows and
> Linux and all the builds are performed from a single bash script under
> Linux. You can also use 7-zip to create a self-installer package from the
> .msi.

WiX also makes installing drivers painless.  It fits nicely into the
Makefile paradigm, so plays well with the rest of our build system, too.

Henry