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Has anyone ever bundled an acucobol 9 installer into an MSI so it automatically installs chosen options into a particular (non standard) directory?

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Has anyone ever bundled an acucobol 9 installer into an MSI so it automatically installs chosen options into a particular (non standard) directory?

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I do this with version 10 and did so before as well.  I use a Wix Toolset project that I have built in Visual Studio to build the installer.  Building an MSI is a key thing here.  Trying to auto-update a client PC from a custom exe file without running acuthin as an administrator is pretty much impossible no matter how high you try to escalate the privileges.  I had limited success using NSI at one point since that builds an exe file.  Older versions of Visual Studio had lite versions of InstallShield which would work.

Has anyone ever bundled an acucobol 9 installer into an MSI so it automatically installs chosen options into a particular (non standard) directory?

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Beginning with ACUCOBOL-GT version 10.0.0 there is a new installer and it is possible to use msiexec for a silent install of some products.

This example is for Runtime, Acu4GL for MSSQL and AcuSQL Runtime installation in the specified directory, "C:\\my\\Install\\Dir":

msiexec /i "extend(R) Version 10.0.0 x86.msi" /qn INSTALLDIR=C:\\my\\install\\Dir ADDLOCAL=Runtime,Acu4GLMSSQL,AcuSQLRuntime

To automatically and silently uninstall:

msiexec /uninstall "extend(R) Version 10.0.0 x86.msi" /qn

Has anyone ever bundled an acucobol 9 installer into an MSI so it automatically installs chosen options into a particular (non standard) directory?

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Has anyone used AUTOIT? Looks like it can do this albeit not in a neat MSI

Has anyone ever bundled an acucobol 9 installer into an MSI so it automatically installs chosen options into a particular (non standard) directory?

thanks

Before using Autoit, I would explore something like Nullsoft (also free). @DougP - do those same options work with the standalone thin client installer? I write some registry settings as well as some custom config file settings on our install.

Has anyone ever bundled an acucobol 9 installer into an MSI so it automatically installs chosen options into a particular (non standard) directory?

thanks

Before using Autoit, I would explore something like Nullsoft (also free). @DougP - do those same options work with the standalone thin client installer? I write some registry settings as well as some custom config file settings on our install.

Has anyone ever bundled an acucobol 9 installer into an MSI so it automatically installs chosen options into a particular (non standard) directory?

thanks

Yes, for Thin Client installation use one of the following:

msiexec /i "extend(R) Thin Client Version 10.0.0.msi" /qn INSTALLDIR=C:\\myInstallDir ADDLOCAL=AcuThin

If you need the Microsoft redistributables then add VC100Redistx86:

msiexec /i "extend(R) Thin Client Version 10.0.0.msi" /qn INSTALLDIR=C:\\myInstallDir ADDLOCAL=AcuThin,VC100Redistx86

To uninstall silently:

msiexec /uninstall "extend(R) Thin Client Version 10.0.1.msi" /qn
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