Hi,
On 8/17/07, Sigbjorn Finne
Galois is pleased to announce the first public release of Bamse, a Windows Installer creator framework written in Haskell. Using Bamse, you can easily create applications that let you build Windows Installer (MSIs) for your project's product deliverables.
The tool was written quite a while ago (4-5 years) as an internal tool at Galois to help the automated building of shippable bundles for Windows platforms, but has also been used for GHC installers since version 5.0.x (and other Haskell-related tools, interpreters and packages.)
Cool :-) I wish I had known this was coming - I've been working recently on MSI generator for pre-compiled Cabal-packages, but it uses Wix tools, instead of foreign bindings to MSI interfaces.
The source code + support package is available from
Remarks/notes: - the source code is covered by a BSD license. - questions, bug reports to sof@galois.com / sof@forkIO.com (*) - If someone would like to adopt and extend the code to make it even more useful, feel free to dive in and hack. (Integrate it into the building of Cabal source and binary dists, perhaps..?) - If there's genuine interest, the code could be made available via a repo ( (*) being the main reason not to right now.)
Best regards, Esa