Correct me if I'm wrong - I looked at this approach. But what they sell
is a dll so I then have to write a program that uses that dll to create
the exe program. If they had a command line program that did this I'ld
happily pay $199.00 * 3 (2 dev, I build system) for this.
Thanks - dave
David Thielen
www.windwardreports.com
303-499-2544 x1185
Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob
MacFadyen
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 1:09 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] zip program for bootstrapper & msi
The ChilKat ZipToSecureExe is a _demo_ of their commercial ZIP
component.
The commercial zip component allows for lots of things that are not part
of the free demo. Here's a link to the docs:
http://www.chilkatsoft.com/refdoc/xChilkatZip2Ref.html
Of specific interest: Changing icon, changing unzip directory.
On whole I found it a worthwhile purchase, and inexpensive at
$149/developer.
For version # updating you can do this yourself... but you'll need to
investigate opening and writing resource sections in an EXE. I _know_ it
can be done with system calls from C/C++... I just can't recall the
reference (somewhere in msdn... maybe near/around PE File Format?). A
quick google on "write version resource in exe" also turned up this tool
which seems to be exactly what you need:
http://www.heaventools.com/command-line_resource_editor.htm
The $199 price seems a bit high... but if you don't want to spend a
couple of days mucking around with C/C++ then it's a steal.
Regards,
Rob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David
Thielen
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 2:04 PM
To: John Vottero; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] zip program for bootstrapper & msi
Same issues we have with Chilkat - caption, icon, & version (I forgot
about that). So looks like we both are at the same point.
Thanks - dave
David Thielen
www.windwardreports.com
303-499-2544 x1185
Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm
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From: John Vottero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 11:49 AM
To: David Thielen; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] zip program for bootstrapper & msi
Ok, I looked into the details because this is working for us. We use
IExpress to compress everything into a single executable. You probably
already have IExpress, I believe that it's part of IE. IExpress lets
you specify a setup command (AppLaunched) and a post install command
(PostInstallCmd). We run the MSBuild/GenerateBootstrapper with
AppLaunched and we run our bootstrapper/installer with the
PostInstallCmd.
The things I don't like about IExpress are:
- Command line support is weak
- You can't change the executable's Icon
- You can't change the executable's tooltip description
- You can't change the executable's version
________________________________
From: David Thielen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 1:18 PM
To: John Vottero; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] zip program for bootstrapper & msi
The only problem is it's Microsoft's bootstrapper from
MSBuild/GenerateBootstrapper so I have no control over that.
Thanks - dave
David Thielen
www.windwardreports.com
303-499-2544 x1185
Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm
________________________________
From: John Vottero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 8:19 AM
To: David Thielen; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] zip program for bootstrapper & msi
I don't think your bootstrapper should exit until the msi is
done installing.
________________________________
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David
Thielen
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 2:16 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] zip program for bootstrapper & msi
Hi;
Can anyone suggest one to use to unzip the 2 files and
then launch the bootstrapper?
* Winzip won't work because it deletes the
unzipped file as soon as the first exists - so the msi will be deleted
when the bootstrapper completes and spawns it.
* Chilkat doesn't run will in a build script (file
is still locked when it returns, can't set the caption or icon).
??? - thanks - dave
David Thielen
www.windwardreports.com
303-499-2544 x1185
Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm
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