BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  InnoSetup features          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Thirdparty Tools (General) View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Ed Dressel Guest Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 8:36 pm    Post subject: InnoSetup features I am current using Wise Installation System v 8 am and looking at moving to something more up-to-date. I've downloaded InnoSetup and am not sure it can support-out of the box-the features I need--I've just started looking at it. Specifically, I have pretty much the same install routine for 8 different installs. A few compiler directives, lots of variables. Does Inno Setup support: 1) Compiler directives. Some of the installs have specific files they need to install, others do not. I currently used compiler directives for this in Wise. Looking real quickly, I did not see them in Inno. What would be the approach in Inno? 2) I have INI files for each compile that determine file names (e.g. each one has a different EXE file name and help file name). Is this possible in Inno? 3) Setup.exe name--changes baded on which installl is being created. Thanks Ed Dressel -- Ed Dressel Back to top Uffe Kousgaard Guest Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 8:42 pm    Post subject: Re: InnoSetup features "Ed Dressel" <none> wrote in message news:46488203 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: I am current using Wise Installation System v 8 am and looking at moving to something more up-to-date. I've downloaded InnoSetup and am not sure it can support-out of the box-the features I need You better ask here: news://news.jrsoftware.org/ But generally I think you can all what you ask for. This is just one example of how to define the application name, based on compiler directives in the script: ; Define one of these ;#define Free #define Pro #ifdef Free #define AppName "free" #endif #ifdef Pro #define AppName "pro" #endif [Setup] AppName=MyApp {#AppName} Back to top Kathire Guest Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 11:35 pm    Post subject: Re: InnoSetup features You can do all the things you are asking for with InnoSetup. Try downloading the QuickPack , instead of the innosetup compiler alone. The QuickPak contains the Istool which is equivalent to that of the Wise IDE. -Kathire Back to top Dean Hill Guest Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:51 pm    Post subject: Re: InnoSetup features Ed Dressel wrote: Quote: 1) Compiler directives. Some of the installs have specific files they need to install, others do not. I currently used compiler directives for this in Wise. Looking real quickly, I did not see them in Inno. What would be the approach in Inno? The pre-processor makes this really easy in Inno. The preproc is included with ISPack. Quote: 2) I have INI files for each compile that determine file names (e.g. each one has a different EXE file name and help file name). Is this possible in Inno? Again, this is easy with the preprocessor. Quote: 3) Setup.exe name--changes baded on which installl is being created. Not a problem. Example of PreProcessor. Some stuff trimmed for easy reading. #ifdef AppEnterprise #define AppName "My Program Enterprise Edition" #else #define AppName "My Program" #endif #define AppVersion GetFileVersion(AddBackslash(SourcePath) + "MyProg.exe") [Setup] AppName={#AppName} AppVerName={#AppName} version {#AppVersion} DefaultDirName={pf}\{#AppName} DefaultGroupName={#AppName} UninstallDisplayIcon={app}\MyProg.exe [Files] Source: "MyProg.exe"; DestDir: "{app}" #ifdef AppEnterprise Source: "MyProg.hlp"; DestDir: "{app}" #endif Source: "Readme.txt"; DestDir: "{app}"; \ Flags: isreadme -- Dean Back to top G.W. van der Vegt Guest Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 5:13 pm    Post subject: Re: InnoSetup features Hi, Quote: 3) Setup.exe name--changes baded on which installl is being created. Not a problem. Assuming you want to append the version info of an exe file to the setup.exe installer you could have a look at the following code (App.exe is the executable used to retrieve version info from, but I also have code to parse a textfile to retrieve it from). It also embeds the version info into the installers exe. You'll need ISTool for it to build this installer. -- Wim van der Vegt ------<cut here ; Retrieve fileversion from executable file: #define MyMainFile "App.exe" #define MySourceDir "C:\Sources" #define MyFullMain AddBackslash(MySourceDir) + MyMainFile #define MyGetBuild() ParseVersion(MyFullMain, Local[0], Local[1], Local[2], Local[3]), Str(Local[3]); #define MyGetVersion() ParseVersion(MyFullMain, Local[0], Local[1], Local[2], Local[3]), Str(Local[0]) + "." + Str(Local[1]); #define MyGetSuffix() "v" + MyGetVersion() + " Build " +MyGetBuild() #define MyVersion() ParseVersion(MyFullMain, Local[0], Local[1], Local[2], Local[3]), Str(Local[0]) + "." + Str(Local[1]) + "." + Str(Local[2]) + "." + Str(Local[3]); [Setup] AppCopyright= AppName=App AppVerName=App Editor OutputDir={#MySourceDir}\Setup DefaultDirName={pf}\App DefaultGroupName=App OutputBaseFilename=App_Setup {#MyGetSuffix()} SourceDir={#MySourceDir} VersionInfoVersion={#MyVersion()} [Files] Source: App.exe; DestDir: {app}; Components: [Icons] Name: {group}\App; Filename: {app}\App.exe; WorkingDir: {app}; IconFilename: {app}\App.exe; Comment: App; IconIndex: 0 ------<cut here ; Search for a source line: ; sVersion = '3.9'; ; in SrcDir + VerSrc #define SrcDir "C:\Sources" #define VerSrc = "Version.pas" #define VerStr = "sVersion = '" ;retrieve Version Number. #define FileLine #define FileHandle #sub ProcessFileLine #if Pos(VerStr, FileLine) #define start = Pos(VerStr, FileLine) + Len(VerStr); #define public Version = "v"+Copy(""+FileLine, start, Len(FileLine)-start-1) #pragma message "Detected Version: " + Version #endif #endsub #for {FileHandle = FileOpen(SrcDir+"\"+VerSrc); FileHandle && !FileEof(FileHandle); FileLine = FileRead(FileHandle)} ProcessFileLine [Setup] OutputBaseFilename=App {#Version} VersionInfoVersion={#Version} ------<cut here Back to top Olivier Beltrami Guest Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 8:28 pm    Post subject: Re: InnoSetup features "Ed Dressel" <none> wrote in message news:46488203 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: I am current using Wise Installation System v 8 am and looking at moving to something more up-to-date. I've downloaded InnoSetup and am not sure it can support-out of the box-the features I need--I've just started looking at it. I have used Wise since version 1.6 (back in 1994) and am now using version 9.02 on all available Windows platforms. It lacks some of the eye-candy of Install-Aware, and definitely lacks the evangelical crowd of Inno Setup, but if you plan on switching away from Wise, be ready for an uphill, unpleasant, stint. Here's what I found, trying to move to both of these other installers. Install-Aware has great support, looks reaaly cool, but because it is limited to the MSI format it is basically a big ZIP blob with no "script intellignece". It is akin to installing software images; you setup a few different images at design-time, but once it ships it basically behaves like a multi-option self-extracting zip. Not a criticism of Installwawre, more of the MSI format. Anyways spent weeks with tech support trying to reproduce basic Wise scripts and got nowhere. Innosetup seems to be able to do it all, probably more than Wise, but as all the other posts show, be ready to fire-up the text editor and manually type INI strings and conditional defines. I use Inno for all my freeware installs which are basic copy an installation folder installs. But for more complex, script-based installs, I am still with Wise. HTH. Olivier Back to top Uffe Kousgaard Guest Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 9:12 pm    Post subject: Re: InnoSetup features "Olivier Beltrami" <olivier(some@junk)ae-soft(someother.junk)net> wrote in message news:4649d188 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: and definitely lacks the evangelical crowd of Inno Setup Amen Back to top Dean Hill Guest Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 8:13 am    Post subject: Re: InnoSetup features Matthew Jones wrote: Quote: Also consider InstallAware, which uses MSI and has given me less hassle that Inno for Vista. It costs money though. I think for .NET applications or applications with newer MS dependencies MSI makes sense. 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