OpenEuphoria

Re: DOS/Windows installer 3.x

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Oct 19, 2006
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:36:58 -0700, Juergen Luethje
<guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:

>Suggestions for improvement of the DOS/Windows installer:
<snip>
>(I assume you are using INNO setup)
I think I said this before, but the makesfx option:
http://www.disoriented.com/FreeExtractor/
does everything you need and can run any installed .exe you want
automatically, eg, in a batch file/command line version, I use:
makesfx.exe /zip="PI.ZIP" /sfx="PI.EXE" /title="Install Positive" 
/website="http://palacebuilders.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/positive.htm" 
/intro="This program installs Positive" 
/defaultpath="$programfiles$\Positive" 
/shortcut="$desktop$\p.lnk|$targetdir$\p.exe" /overwrite 
/exec="$targetdir$\p.exe"

(all on one line).

Plus, you can extract from the resulting pi.exe using winzip etc.

Short, sweet, open source, what more could you want?

Regards,
Pete
PS I use a separate batch file to build pi.zip first.