How about a bounty for a new windows installer using inno setup ?

Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Dec 9 15:39:07 PST 2016


On Friday, 9 December 2016 at 17:05:24 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Friday, 9 December 2016 at 16:47:18 UTC, Jesse Phillips 
> wrote:
>> An MSI can't execute an arbitrary executable, just an 
>> arbitrary DLL which could run an arbitrary executable :)
>
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa368563%28v=vs.85%29.aspx this?

Thanks, prove me wrong :)

I suppose you'd use the DLL because it has access to the MSI 
database during installation while the EXE won't.

I'm doing it because I'm replacing a 3rd party DLL and want to 
make sure the custom action is called correctly by our installer.


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