Forge

A universal Windows installer: one signed stub, compiled once, stamped per product.

LockeWerks Forge. Stamps a signed, branded Windows installer from a TOML config and a payload directory. No toolchain needed at packaging time.

MIT Windows x64 v0.4.1

Download Source on GitHub

Overview

LockeWerks Forge. A universal, extensible Windows installer: one signed stub, compiled once, plus a packaging tool that stamps a product's configuration and payload into a copy of it. Building an installer needs no C++ toolchain.

What it is

Three pieces:

The stub reads a compact binary blob the forge produced. It never parses text, so the elevated signed binary carries no text parser and links nothing from vcpkg.

The full documentation is in the README.

Get It

Install.

Download Source on GitHub