Hocine Abdellatif Houari
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Inno Bundle

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2024 – Present

Open-source CLI tool that bundles Flutter apps into Windows installers, replacing the complex MSIX/certificate workflow.

Why it exists

Shipping a Flutter app on Windows meant wrestling with MSIX packaging and code-signing certificates — heavy machinery for developers who just want to hand users an installer. Inno Bundle wraps Inno Setup in a friendly CLI that figures out app metadata from your pubspec.yaml and produces a proper EXE installer.

What it does

  • Generates the initial installer configuration in your pubspec.yaml automatically
  • Builds the app and the installer with a single command
  • Bundles the required MSVC redistributable DLLs so the app runs on end-user machines missing them
  • Ships a GitHub Actions workflow demo that builds the installer and publishes it to GitHub Releases with versioning
  • Documents configuration and CLI options on the GitHub wiki

Usage

dart pub add dev:inno_bundle
dart run inno_bundle

Reception

  • Verified publisher (hahouari.com) on pub.dev, MIT licensed
  • 12K+ monthly downloads at peak, 150 pub points

Stack: Dart, Inno Setup, GitHub Actions