Compression problem

[kriz_82]

Hello,

Project: Basic MSI

I would like to have a Setup.exe and Foo.msi on the media file system and I would like to have the installation files got compressed into the MSI file.
I do not see the way to achieve that in InstallShield.

If I select
Compression: Compressed
Setup Launcher: Yes
I got files compressed but also msi file itself got compressed into Setup.exe

If I select
Compresseion: Uncompressed
Setup Launcher: Yes
Then I got Setup.exe and Foo.msi but the installation files are not compressed.

Once again, my goal is to have both Setup.exe and Foo.msi on the media file system and the actual installation files got compressed into Foo.msi.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards!

[Reureu]

I haven't found any way to keep only the setup.exe and msi files but with embedded program files in the msi instead of these cabinet files.

• If you choose a network image, it gives you either a single exe file or a single msi file.
  
• If you choose any other media, the program files are either compressed into cabinet files or left uncompressed.
  

One would indeed expect an expensive tool like InstallShield to support that.

Even setup projects of Visual Studio allowed to do it, at least until this project type was replaced by InstallShield projects...

[kriz_82]

Hi Reureu,

I was really surprised when i realized that I am not able to achieve such functionality.

Regards!