What is Project OS/3 for Linux and macOS?

– A one-click wizard that takes as input any Windows setup, and outputs a Linux and macOS setup.
– This setup pre-installs Wine (graphically, without ever dumping your end-user to the command line).
– It then installs your application on your target instance of Wine, and wraps up creating app shortcuts.

So you basically have a point-and-click workflow to run all your Windows apps on Linux and macOS – today – without so much as a recompile.

How is this different from Wine, which already runs Windows apps on Linux and macOS?

A lot of compatibility problems in Wine arise during the setup process. InstallAware is uniquely equipped to solve this problem:

– InstallAwareStudio Admin X17’s PackageAware ingests your Windows setup into an InstallAware project.
– The Project OS/3 Wizard converts this project to InstallAwareMulti Platform, adding the Wine runtime.
– InstallAwareMulti Platform 2025’s native code setup engine directly injects your app into a Wine layer.

With the declining market share of Windows, now is the time to make your move to Linux and macOS!

Courage is opening up your sources for the whole world to see!

As we continue to develop and support InstallAware 2025, you may now take a peek under the hood – and even take care of a pet peeve or two here or there; to say nothing of actually implementing things we haven’t even dreamed of yet at InstallAware Software.

You get to pick your platform – Linux, macOS, or Windows.

Building from our sources is remarkably straightforward, and we have a thorough readme to guide you every step of the way:

www.github.com/installaware/IAMP

You may compile for 7 different platforms from the same single unified sources:

– Linux x86_64 GTK2
– Linux aarch64 GTK2
– Linux x86_64 Qt5
– Linux aarch64 Qt5
– Apple Intel
– Apple Silicon
– Windows x86

Indeed, courage is hardly removing a headphone jack everybody needs.

Courage is exercising your freedom to self-publish your software, on your own terms, and on all platforms you want to seed!

Welcome to a brave new world!

Ever wanted to run existing Windows apps on Linux and/or Mac without having to recompile them?

Easily tap brand new markets using advanced deployment technologies pioneered by InstallAware!

Our biggest update to InstallAware Multi Platform in two years is launching in just five days:

• Directly recompile existing InstallAware setups as native code Linux and Mac installers in a single click.
• Install any existing Windows setup, even and especially without its sources, on Linux and Mac – like how we helped Apple with their Game Porting Toolkit on Mac.
• InstallAware 2025‘s native code setup engine runs without any dependencies on Apple Silicon, Apple Intel, Linux x86_64 and Linux aarch64 – both for GTK2 and Qt5 – so it easily deploys anything, everywhere.

Enjoy pure native code IDEs, debuggers, dialog designers, command line build and localization tools for Linux, or macOS, or Windows.

Ever wanted to run Desktop software without having to install it first?

Easily create portable applications with the convenience and advanced technology of InstallAware!

Our first update to InstallAware Virtualization in over 4 years, version 10.0 is fully compatible with Windows 11 24H2:

– Directly build existing InstallAware setups as portable applications in a single click.

– Convert any existing legacy installer, even if you don’t have its sources, to an InstallAware Virtualization project using PackageAware for Virtualization.

Effortless in virtualization also reads InstallAware – just as it does in setups

All licenses include 1 year of maintenance for free major version upgrades throughout your term.

CompanyGlance just dropped a deep dive into how we liberate you from the shackles of AppStores!

Self-publish and sell any way you like, with no risk of your apps getting rug pulled from under you because you offended a trillionaire somewhere:

companyglance.com/news/installaware-simplifying-software-installations-across-platforms/

The time is now!

o Azure Trusted Signing: Sail through security. Confers EV-grade trust. No build breaking dongles (or extensive verifications) required. Maximize your reach and adoption.

o Code Signing Hooks: Inject your custom command lines into the build process any time a signing event would normally occur. Future-proof against any new vendors and standards.

o .NET 9.0.0, 8.0.11, 7.0.20, 6.0.36: All the latest runtimes for your setups. Thoroughly tested scripts on all platforms. Better integration reduces your customer support costs.

o 30% Faster Compression: Your builds are now accelerated with large memory page technology. Spend less time waiting and more time getting results.

o aarch64 Binary Compression: Realize smaller setups with designer algorithms made for new Snapdragon binaries. Save bandwidth, keep users happy with more successful downloads.

o Windows 24H2 Features/Server 2025 Roles: Prep your platforms with ease. Our configuration UI replicates Windows’s own interface, down to the minutest component dependencies.

o 4 GB Compression Dictionary: Enjoy data-deduplication grade space savings across tens of gigabytes of raw data. Save money on hosting costs, land intact on more desktops.

Here’s our biggest update to our flagship product in years – coming on December 20th, 2024:

o Azure Trusted Signing grants your packages instant EV-grade trust – without the hassles of a physical dongle, and with the convenience of a DUNS based verification.

o Code Signing Hooks future-proof your process for any future standard and/or vendor – tapping your custom command lines any time a code signing event would normally occur.

o Brand-New Compression Engine with a 4 GB dictionary, and aarch64 executable code filters to improve compressibility.

o 30% Faster Compression even for single core (non-parallelizable workloads); plus native AMD64 and aarch64 processes that run on bare-metal, completely eliminating emulation slowdowns.

o Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 support, including fully updated Windows Features and Server Roles definitions for point-and-click host platform configurations.

o Fresh .NET 9.0.0, 8.0.11, 7.0.20, 6.0.36 runtimes, and also a Visual C++ 2015-2024 runtime refresh.

o Get/Set Clipboard, Get File Date/Time, Get/Set Memory Pages commands. New ScrollBox dialog control. Docker and Wine support in the setup engine.

Convenience is a rare commodity these days.

– Macs inconvenience you with no installer at all: You can’t repair, update, or automatically uninstall your apps.

– Microsoft inconveniences you with having to learn at least three full development stacks just to build MSIX packages!

– Linux inconveniences you with a plethora of incompatible package managers and their package conflicts that can kill your OS.

Our slogan 20 years ago was “Windows Installer without Rocket Science“, because it was literally harder to build your setup than it was to build your app.

20 years later it’s only gotten worse!

– Nobody wants you to be able to directly distribute your own apps, shoehorning you into one proprietary app store or another; where they can yank your apps from under you any second.

– Everybody seems to agree that software installation must be made as complicated as possible, with extensive learning and testing required before even an elementary package may be deployed.

Only InstallAware helps you:

o Retain 100% control over your distribution and sales process, integrating your licesing into your installation workflow any way you like (including technologies such as blockchain activations).

o Ensure 100% success during deployment, thanks to Native Code Setup Engines which run without any dependencies on Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel), and Linux (GTK2, Qt5, and Console/Text Mode only).

o Secure 100% of your bits to be sourced from your main setup payload, ordinary web servers, private networks, or even decentralized (BitTorrent) – whilst giving you complete freedom in choosing what goes where.

o Author 100% of your setups using an intuitive, human readable, runtime-decision-making setup script – which gets compiled into three operating systems, three CPU architectures, and a growing number of package formats.

o Shrink 100% of your data using both the fastest and the most effective data compression technology available – from a parallel build engine using all your CPU cores, to single-core acceleration of non-parallelizable workloads.

o Update 100% of your apps, delivering tightly optimized binary-differential-patches (or full version upgrades) that are targeted by your business logic/product edition/language; with an update client that is written in InstallAware itself.

InstallAware has been called “the convenience of obviousness” by one of our favorite clients. Reward yourself with this simplicity today.

We’re super stoked to announce the imminent availability of InstallAware Multi Platform 2.0 on Friday September 27th 2024!

Let your installer lead the way in the diversification of your software portfolio from Windows into new macOS & new Linux.

See for yourself how easy it is to build native code installers from your existing setup sources – in just a single click:

o Dialog Editor: Tens of controls, hundreds of properties – create custom interfaces that look & feel the same everywhere.

o Setup Script: Code just like you would on Windows and have it magically compile as native code macOS and Linux binaries!

o Standards Compliance: Get Apple Notarized, retain 100% of your workflow and skills from Windows – with nothing to learn.

o Console Setup Engine: A must to ensure 100% Linux deployment success rates, with all GUI dialogs rendering in text mode.

o GitHub Starstruck: Our open source Apple Game Porting Toolkit installer sample runs Windows binaries unchanged on macOS.

We haven’t had to raise prices at InstallAware for four years.
However, now we must better reflect the value of our software (1).
A 20% increase across all our product lines takes effect this Friday.

(1) Here’s a glance at some of the major innovations we’ve introduced during the past four years:

• Windows 11 and Visual Studio (2020): Only InstallAware lets you target Microsoft’s ever growing (and mutually devouring) delivery mechanisms from your existing source – with Windows 12 support coming later this year.
• Seamless Linux and macOS (2021): Even leaving installers aside, there’s literally no software development company to have provided a 100% automatic port from Windows to Posix – except InstallAware.
• Context Menu Bridge, Sparse MSIX’es (2022): InstallAware is the first and only to automatically port your IContextMenu’s to Windows 11’s top-level context menus, zero coding required (just paste your GUID’s).
• AGPT Installer (2023): Install any Windows app on macOS and run it seamlessly! Are there any other setup builders doing this?
• Parallel Build Engine (2024): Build 16 times faster on modern laptops sporting 32 cores, and enjoy even faster builds as manufacturers add more logical processors!

InstallAware simply means seamless compatibility across all desktop platforms, sustained for two decades and going strong!

If you haven’t tried us yet, you’ll be amazed by what you can build with InstallAware – and how quickly.

Choose InstallAware, the company that’s in your corner, for a change. We’ve got your back – 20 years and counting!