After all, I achieved the creation of MSI with the combination of Inno setup and MSI wrapper. Inno setup allows creating a setup.exe from a build script and do several types of tasks at the time of installation. A mere skeleton can be created with the wizard and then changing it isn't so difficult. Moreover, there are many pointers on the web.
Creating an MSI wrapper (http://www.exemsi.com/inno-setup-and-msi) for the setup file created with Inno is just a matter of a few clicks. Tx for very helpful pointers. Usman On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:34 AM, p...@highoctane.be <p...@highoctane.be>wrote: > You can also use Inno Setup which is nice, easy, and free. > > http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php#features > > But ok, it doesn't do MSI. > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6245260/installers-wix-or-inno-setup > > But you can get around that with http://www.exemsi.com/inno-setup-and-msi > > Good luck. > > Phil > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Hernán Morales Durand < > hernan.mora...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have never tried but it seems you can wrap installer in MSI files using >> WiX http://wixtoolset.org/ and this package http://www.exemsi.com/ >> >> To write the installer check this out: >> >> http://code.google.com/p/**biosmalltalk/wiki/**NSISInstallerScript<http://code.google.com/p/biosmalltalk/wiki/NSISInstallerScript> >> >> Hernán >> >> El 26/08/2013 17:29, Usman Bhatti escribió: >> >>> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Stéphane Ducasse >>> <stephane.duca...@inria.fr >>> <mailto:stephane.ducasse@**inria.fr<stephane.duca...@inria.fr>>> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> > Hello, >>> > >>> > Does anyone have experience of distributing Pharo-based software >>> as an MSI installer package to be installed by clients? >>> >>> what is an MSI? >>> >>> >>> Microsoft installer, a packaging for windows-based software that allows >>> installation of the software on a windows machine: creation of registry >>> keys, Start menu items, looking for previous installations of the >>> software and upgrading it, etc. >>> >>> >>> > I would particularly like to know the tool that was used to >>> create the MSI. >>> >>> Do you mean installing a Pharo App? >>> What means installing? >>> >>> >>> So, it would mean that Pharo app is installed on a client machine: >>> creating directory hierarchy, placing image and vm files and any scripts >>> that come with the image, and creating windows shortcuts. For the time, >>> its a question from a client so I thought someone might have some >>> relevant exp. >>> >>> >>> Because if you ship an image in essence: >>> you ship one image >>> with an opening image saying installing…. >>> then you save >>> >>> >>> >>> > >>> > regards, >>> > >>> > Usman Bhatti >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >
