Generate setup.exe in an application

[nyoshi]

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.

[jclark102]

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?

[nyoshi]

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.