= Installers

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Introduction
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CMake has the ability to create installers for multiple platforms using a program
called link:https://cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:CPackPackageGenerators[CPack].
CPack includes the ability to create Linux RPM, deb and gzip distributions
 of both binaries and source code. It also includes teh ability to create NSIS files for Microsoft Windows.
