nightrhyme
19th September 2006 12:02 UTC

Making installer for multiple exe's Help
I would like to make an installer who installs/launches several exe's. Basically a bunch of codec exe's for at codec guide I made..

I have tried several installers but they are quite complicated and I just haven't got the time.

Does anyone here know of and easy to use program that will let me specify a bunch of exe's that will be packed in one exe and when launched will install all the specified exe's one at the time.

I could not find the option to do this in NSIS Quick Setup Script Generator

Thanx in advance..

Comm@nder21
19th September 2006 16:34 UTC

write your own nsis script
then execute the exe files with "ExecWait".

very easy.

you could even work with macros to decrease work and increase copy-paste action :)

nightrhyme
19th September 2006 23:43 UTC

Easy to you maybe :)
Care to write me some code I could use ?

Thanx in advance

Comm@nder21
20th September 2006 17:38 UTC

copy all you exe files into one folder.
then paste the following code into a new textfile.

save it as blabla.nsi in the same folder.

then edit the "!insertmacro" lines, to fit your codecs.

done.

enhance it yourself, if you need more :)

Name "mysetup"

OutFile "mysetup.exe"

Page components
Page directory
Page instfiles

!macro add_codec NAME FILE
Section "${NAME}"
 File "${FILE}"
 ExecWait "$OUTDIR\${FILE}"
SectionEnd
!macroend

Section "-hiddenbegin"
 SetOutPath "$PLUGINSDIR\codecs"
SectionEnd

!insertmacro add_codec "Codec 1" "codec1.exe"
!insertmacro add_codec "Codec 2" "codec2.exe"
!insertmacro add_codec "Codec 3" "codec3.exe"

Section "-hidden2"
 SetOutPath "$EXEDIR"
 RMDir /r "$PLUGINSDIR\codecs"
SectionEnd