


Prepare your work areaĪnd with this, we don't mean that you should clean your computer. In this article, you will learn how to create an installer for windows using the electron-winstaller module which uses Squirrel, the installation and update framework for Windows desktop apps. However, Windows is not Linux.Īlmost all installers are created by a tool (e.g.

Developers just need to provide a package for a distribution, each distribution then has a way to install this package and this way can be in a terminal ( apt-get) or via a graphical interface, e.g. If you want to create instead of a Squirrel based installer, a MSI (Microsoft Installer) setup, please follow this tutorial instead.Īs a developer, you may know that Linux has package managers so the developers don't "need" to make the installers.
