Silent Install of vcredist_x86.exe via NSIS

Non-silent install of vcredist_x86.exe (i.e. by simply ExecWait-ing it with no switches) works. 👍

However, I am now interested in silentely installing it.

I found an MSDN blog that describes how to do so:


vcredist_x86.exe /q:a /c:"VCREDI~1.EXE /q:a /c:""msiexec /i vcredist.msi /qb!"" "

(notice the quotation marks - they are critical!)

From the command line, the above works great.

However, from the NSIS script it simply doesn't work. 👎

I tried esacping those quotation marks once:

ExecWait '"$INSTDIR\${DLLMSVC8} /q:a /c:$\"VCREDI~1.EXE /q:a /c:$\"$\"msiexec /i vcredist.msi /qb!$\"$\" $\""'

and twice:

ExecWait '"$INSTDIR\${DLLMSVC8} /q:a /c:$\$\"VCREDI~1.EXE /q:a /c:$\$\"$\$\"msiexec /i vcredist.msi /qb!$\$\"$\$\" $\$\""'

But that did not solve the problem. 🙁

How do I deal with so many quotation marks in one string in an NSIS script?

Any idea or tip would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Victor

$\"$\" and not $\$\"

as far as i can see

ExecWait '"$INSTDIR\${DLLMSVC8}" /q:a /c:"VCREDI~1.EXE /q:a /c:""msiexec /i vcredist.msi /qb!"" "' 

should work

Originally posted by Anders
$\"$\" and not $\$\"

as far as i can see

ExecWait '"$INSTDIR\${DLLMSVC8}" /q:a /c:"VCREDI~1.EXE /q:a /c:""msiexec /i vcredist.msi /qb!"" "' 

should work

Bingo! This works like a charm 👍

For some reason it's not totally silent (yet) but at least I passed the quotation marks hurdle in NSIS (thanks to you).

Thank you!
Victor

/q [n|b|r|f] The /q option is used to set the user interface level in conjunction with the following flags:
q or qn creates no user interface
qb creates a basic user interface
The user interface settings below display a modal dialog box at the end of installation:
qr displays a reduced user interface
qf displays a full user interface
qn+ displays no user interface
qb+ displays a basic user interface