Creating Package Installer

[AP.Sakkthivel]

Hi All,

Sorry if i am wrong in framing the question properly.

Can we create application package installer (like msi file) using windows API or
Linux system functions?

Please explain.

Usually we will create package using tools like installshield or WiX....but
my question is can we create msi package programmatically?

If so give me some references or examples

Thanks in Advance

[AP.Sakkthivel]

Hi Every Body

Waiting for the answer :(

[Brandybuck]

Why would you want to do it programmatically? This is the kind of thing that is done once. In order to do it programmatically, you would have to give the program the same information required to do it by hand.

I use NullSoft's NSIS, which uses a configuration file with Pascal-like entries. It would indeed be possible to generate an NSIS configuration program at runtime. But in the real world you are still going to end up tweaking stuff by hand.

IMHO

[petercruickshank]

Hey, apparently the program at http://www.advancedinstaller.com/feats-list.html can do automated msi building in scripts. And from that website it looks like that feature is in the free version too. Of course, I only use Linux, so I have no first-hand experience with that program.