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I have a installshield limited edition project for visual studio 2015. When built, I have a setup file and then the prerequisites in subfolders named with uuid type strings. I would want this whole thing to be one MSI file. How do I go about to get that done?
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Thanks for accepting it, but can you clarify, what Installshield Limited did not do that became possible with Innosetup? Initially you said you wanted it all in the MSI, but with Innosetup it was still setup.exe, so why was it better?
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What I really wanted was the whole thing to be one file, and I thought I had to have msi to do that. But with inno setup I managed to get the whole thing (including prerequisites) into one exe file. So then I am happy.
If I'm not mistaken, this was available in Installshield Express as well, by choosing configuration "singleimage" and ""InstallShield Prerequisites Location" = "Extract From Setup.exe" (source)
(This is not to question or argue your solution, but just giving full information to e-e users who will find this solution in the future)
(This is not to question or argue your solution, but just giving full information to e-e users who will find this solution in the future)
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Seems like that might work, thank you.
I ended up using Inno Setup instead, and there creating one exe that includes my prerequisites and the files I want to install. With Inno Setup I can then script a check for if the prerequisites are there or not, extract them from the exe if needed, and run them silently before my application is installed. That works for me.