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‎Apr 05, 2013
12:29 AM
Basic MSI Installer in ISLE
Can someone give me some pointers where I can build a MSI in the Installer Shield Spring LE that would deploy a folder (with content) to some destination folder in a target machine, using VS 2012. I've given few tries but ended up in the same folder getting created in the build directory along with setup.exe, msi and some config files. I can't use this MSI alone for installation from a different machine/directory since it depends on the folder generated by the IS compiler.
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‎Apr 08, 2013
08:45 AM
Hello,
Could you please try below steps:
>Open ISLE project in visual studio
>Double click on Releases view under Prepare for release view
>Set compression to "Compressed" under build tab
>Set Setup launcher to "No" under setup.exe tab (if works,if no prereq are included in the project)
>build the project to build single msi setup.
Thanks
Chiranjeevi
Could you please try below steps:
>Open ISLE project in visual studio
>Double click on Releases view under Prepare for release view
>Set compression to "Compressed" under build tab
>Set Setup launcher to "No" under setup.exe tab (if works,if no prereq are included in the project)
>build the project to build single msi setup.
Thanks
Chiranjeevi
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‎Apr 09, 2013
01:16 AM
Thanks Chiranjeevi.
I now realized the use of these options. But since I do have pre-reqs for my installer, am not able to generate the MSI. Is there any other way to deal with this?
Thanks.
I now realized the use of these options. But since I do have pre-reqs for my installer, am not able to generate the MSI. Is there any other way to deal with this?
Thanks.
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‎Apr 09, 2013
05:53 AM
Hello
There is no other way to achieve this behavior, that's why prerequisites are separate. One reason is that you can't install an MSI-based install from within an MSI based install. Another is that prerequisites almost always require admin privileges, but app setups sometimes don't.
Regards,
Chiranjeevi
There is no other way to achieve this behavior, that's why prerequisites are separate. One reason is that you can't install an MSI-based install from within an MSI based install. Another is that prerequisites almost always require admin privileges, but app setups sometimes don't.
Regards,
Chiranjeevi
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‎Apr 10, 2013
01:18 AM
Looks like, this is not inline with Visual studio where in we could create just MSI based deployables with pre-reqs and admin rights.
Thanks much for the answer Chiranjeevi.
Thanks much for the answer Chiranjeevi.