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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