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‎Jan 05, 2011
09:37 AM
Generate setup.exe in an application
Hello,
I use InstallShield 2011 Professional for a couple of week and for now I manage to do what I want ^^.
But now, my application needs to generate ... how to say ... it-self as a brand new Setup. In another words, I want my application to generate other applications' setup.exe that my users could redistribute.
Is there a way to do that with InstallShield's DLL ?
Thank you.
I use InstallShield 2011 Professional for a couple of week and for now I manage to do what I want ^^.
But now, my application needs to generate ... how to say ... it-self as a brand new Setup. In another words, I want my application to generate other applications' setup.exe that my users could redistribute.
Is there a way to do that with InstallShield's DLL ?
Thank you.
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‎Jan 05, 2011
03:59 PM
Is this 'generated' setup.exe going to be dynamic based on the install or users computer? If not, you could include a 'setup.exe' that get's installed?
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‎Jan 06, 2011
03:09 AM
Hello jclark102,
Thanks for your answer, and it is of course the simplest way and what I have done.
But the issue is that I have multiple setup.exe and they are pretty heavy.
And now that I begin to do some patch, my Update.exe are to heavy because InstallShield replace the whole files (even if I ask for a byte comparison) while my setup.exe share a lot of .dll. So there's a duplication of data that i would like to avoid.
Thanks for your answer, and it is of course the simplest way and what I have done.
But the issue is that I have multiple setup.exe and they are pretty heavy.
And now that I begin to do some patch, my Update.exe are to heavy because InstallShield replace the whole files (even if I ask for a byte comparison) while my setup.exe share a lot of .dll. So there's a duplication of data that i would like to avoid.
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