Inno Setup FAQInno Setup Frequently Asked Questions. The Inno Setup Frequently Asked Questions contains supplemental information not found in the documentation or the Knowledge Base. Functionality. Problems. Installation Tasks. How Do I Install. Compatibility. Miscellaneous. Functionality. Translating Inno Setups text into another language does not require modifying the source code. For whatever reason the program finally executed on its own. I was changing the command lines susggested by Skissinger thank you and the final one i tried. These prerequisites install the appropriate technologies on supported target systems. New Constant for the DialogSetInfo Function. A new constant is available for the. Windows Installer previously known as Microsoft Installer, codename Darwin is a software component and application programming interface API of Microsoft Windows. Hello, I am new in this category if you can call it like that. I have a little piece of software that i need to install on quite a few machines on the network. KB/install/command_lines_setups/Article.jpg' alt='Msi Command Line Options Silent Install Program' title='Msi Command Line Options Silent Install Program' />Simply make a copy of the Default. Inno Setup and start editing the text in it. PBcxs.png' alt='Msi Command Line Options Silent Install Program' title='Msi Command Line Options Silent Install Program' />Do not directly edit the Default. Inno Setup version. See the Messages Section topic in the Inno Setup help file for some important tips. Once you have finished creating the new. Languages section to tell the compiler to use it LanguagesName mytrans Messages. File compiler My. Translation. isl. If youre using a version of Inno Setup prior to 4. SetupMessages. Filecompiler My. Translation. isl. There are many contributed translations available for download on the Inno Setup Third Party Files page, as well as a program to assist in editing the. Inno Setup 2. 0. 6 adds complete support for MBCS. It does lead byte checking on all filename and constant parsing, so it should no longer mistake trail bytes for backslashes or braces. Versions prior to 2. MBCS. At the present time, there are no plans for a Windows Installer edition of Inno Setup. Supporting Windows Installer would likely involve a near complete rewrite of the program. The installers icon may be changed by setting the Setup. Icon. File Setup section directive. To set the uninstallers icon, set Uninstall. Icon. File. Inno Setup 4 adds support for this through the new Pascal Scripting feature. Note with earlier Inno Setup versions it was already possible to install different files depending on the Windows version. No, nor is such a feature planned it would be abused. If it is your intention to keep user interaction to a minimum, use the Disable Setup section directives. Yes. Use a reg. constant in Default. Dir. Name. For example SetupDefault. Dir. Namereg HKLMSoftwareMy Program,PathpfMy ProgramSee the Constants topic in the Inno Setup help file for more information on reg. Problems. This message is typically displayed if you try to embed a quote character in a parameters data, but do not double it as required. Read the Parameters in Sections topic in the Inno Setup help file for more information. Your application is most likely not specifying pathnames on the files it is trying to open, so it is expecting to find them in the current directory. Inno Setup by default does not set the Start In field on shortcuts its creates this causes Windows to pick a directory itself, which usually wont be the directory containing your application. In virtually all cases, this is something that should be corrected at the application level. Properly designed GUI applications should not expect to be started from a particular directory they should always specify full pathnames on files they open. In Delphi or CBuilder, for example, its possible to get the full pathname of the directory containing the application EXE by calling Extract. File. PathParam. Str0. To get the full path of a file named File. Extract. File. PathParam. Str0 File. txt. If for some reason you cannot fix this at the application level, you can tell Inno Setup to set the Start In field by adding Working. Dir app to your Icons entries. This error message is displayed when a file pertaining to the installation e. CRC check. It is not displayed for any other reason. If your installation is distributed over the internet and youre getting a lot of reports of this error, it could be that your web server is delivering partial files by dropping connections prematurely. Have the affected users check the size in the bytes of the files they downloaded. If your installation is distributed via CD ROM or floppy disk, it could be that the CD ROM or floppy disk is bad, or possibly the drive is defective. This happens when you change App. Id between versions, or if App. Id is not specified, App. Name. If you do that, Setup has no way of knowing that the two versions are of the same application, and thus will create a new entry in AddRemove Programs. Additionally, a new uninstall log file uninsThe obvious solution for this is to not change App. Id or App. Name. If you must change App. Name in a new version, set App. Id to the value of App. Id or App. Name from the previous version. This message normally means that you specified the regserver flag on a file that doesnt possess the ability to be registered. Remove the regserver flag from the Files entry and the message will go away. There are several reasons why a directory may not be removed It already existed prior to installation. By default, the uninstaller plays it safe and doesnt remove directories that the installer didnt create. It contains files or subdirectories. Use Uninstall. Delete if you need the uninstaller to delete additional filesdirectories. A running process has the directory as its current directory. Note In Inno Setup versions prior to 2. Dirs or Uninstall. Delete sections for them to be deleted by the uninstaller. In newer Inno Setup versions, directories created by Files section entries will be deleted automatically by the uninstaller if they didnt exist prior to installation. From Tim Rude The simplest way to get a batch file to automatically close on exit is to clear the screen at the end of it using the CLS command. Hello Worldecho This batch file does NOT close on exit. Hello Worldecho This batch file DOES close on exitcls. At startup Setup looks in the registry to see if the same application was already installed previously, and if so, it will use the directory of the previous installation as the default directory presented to the user in the wizard. If you uninstall the application and run Setup again, it will use the new Default. Dir. Name setting. If you wish to disable this feature, set Use. Previous. App. Dir to no. Two files cant have the same name, and since shortcuts are files, two shortcuts therefore cant have the same name. First, make sure that you are not using the nowait or waituntilidle flags on the Run entry. These flags prevent Setup from waiting until the process completely terminates. If you arent using those flags and it still doesnt seem to be waiting for the program to finish, then likely what is happening is that the EXE youre running is spawning some other process and then terminating itself immediately, causing Setup to think the program has finished. This is known to happen with older Install. Shield based installers to work around it, try using the SMS switch. A simple way to check if a program does that is to run START WAIT Program. Name. exe from the command line, and see if you are returned to the command prompt before the program exits. You are using Non Unicode Inno Setup Beginning with Inno Setup 4. Languages section that cannot be displayed under the active Windows ANSI code page are not listed in the Select Setup Language dialog. For example, Russian text can only be displayed properly if the active code page is 1. Russian as an option. On Windows XP, the active code page may be changed by going to Regional and Language Options in Control Panel, and setting Language for non Unicode programs on the Advanced tab. On Windows 2. 00. Regional Options in Control Panel, and clicking Set default. If you are sure youre running in the correct code page and a language still isnt being listed, then most likely Language. Code. Page is set incorrectly inside the languages. If you would like to force all languages to be visible regardless of whether they can be displayed properly under the active code page, set the Show. Undisplayable. Languages Setup section directive new in Inno Setup 5. UnattendedSilent Installation Switches for Windows Apps. Introduction. The goal of this document is to collect instructions for performing unattended. Such instructions. A quick word on terminology Strictly speaking, an unattended. However, most people use these terms. Here, we are interested not only in performing unattended installations, but. This is necessary for reliably installing multiple. General information. There are several systems which vendors use to create installers for their. To make an educated guess about how to run an installer unattended. Sometimes this will be. Of course, you can try running the installer with the But if you really expect this to work. Windows for very long. In my experience, the odds. MSI packages. Microsofts own Windows Installer Service is the nominal standard, and if. Unfortunately. Microsoft invented it too late. The package files have a. For installation, use the i and qb switches. Use the. lswitch to produce a log file. You can provide named options or. For example, this command. Active. Perl. msi PERLPATHYes PERLEXTYes. Active. State Perl, instructing the MSI package to add. Perl. exe to your PATH and to associate. Perhaps the most important common property is the REBOOT property, which you can use to suppress any automatic. MSI package might try to perform. So in general, you want to provide. REBOOTReally. Suppress. Neat, huh Too bad nobody uses it. Install. Shield. Install. Shield is one. of the oldest and most widely used application packaging systems. Installers created by Install. Shield recognize the r, s, sms, f. The installer itself is invariably named setup. To perform a silent installation, you need an Install. Shield answer. file, customarily named setup. Some applications ship with. Here is how it works. Run the installer with the r. Proceed through the dialogs and complete the. This will create a setup. C WINDOWS directory yes, really. This file will include all of. Install. Shield dialogs, allowing you to perform unattended. Simply copy setup. Once you have a setup. This will perform an unattended. Unfortunately, the installer will fork a separate process and exit, meaning it. This makes it useless for scripting purposes. Luckily, there is another switch. Hence, for an Install. Shield application, you want to provide both the s and the sms switches. The f. 1filename switch allows you to specify a. Note that. there must be no space between the f. This switch works both with r to create the file and. The f. 2filename switch specifies a log file. Once again. there must be no space between the switch and the file name. WARNING Be careful what characters you use in these file. Install. Shield silently strips certain non alphanumerics like. Oh, one more thing. The r and s switches only work. Many packages have custom. For such packages, I suggest. If that does not work, I suggest doing. Packageforthe. Web. Install. Shield has a relatively new add on product. Packageforthe. Web, or PFTW for short. This is basically an Install. Shield. tree bundled up as a single file executable. When you run this executable, it extracts a bunch of files to a temporary. The PFTW package recognizes the s and a . The s switch instructs the PFTW package to run silently. The a . add switch allows you to add switches. You may. provide any of the normal Install. Shield switches here, including r. Thus, to automate the installation of a PFTW package named foo. Then, to install the package completely silently, you would run. The first s is only needed for a completely silent installation. If you leave it off, the PFTW package will show you a status bar as it extracts. Install. Shield tree to the temporary directory. Install. Shield with MSIRecent versions 7 and above of Install. Shields tools are able to produce MSI files. Read Install. Shields documentation for full details. These MSI files may be shipped alone or with a setup. These installers in turn come in two flavors, called Install. Script. MSI and Basic MSI. Install. Script MSI uses the traditional Install. Shield switches. Basic MSI is. To perform an unattended installation using a Basic MSI installer, you provide. These should include the qb or qn switch to make. Just to make things interesting, any of these mechanisms might be combined with. PFTW. For example, we eventually figured out that the IBM Update Connector requires these flags for unattended. The first s tells the PFTW installer to extract silently. The. a tells it to provide the remaining switches to the underlying. The second s tells setup. Finally, Install. Shield has a Knowledge. Base article which is less helpful than you might. Are we having fun yet Wise Install. Master. Install. Master from Wise. Solutions is a competitor to Install. Shield. You can usually identify the. Wise. Install. Master installers are supposed to recognize the s switch to. And in our experience, they generally do. But. there is no way to set options, and the exit status is meaningless. Note This product has been rebranded the Wise. C Setup Project Install Path Of Exile. Installation System. Dont let them confuse you. Inno Setup. Inno Setup is. You can usually identify the installers. Inno. The switches for Inno Setup are fully documented in the ISetup. Inno distribution. Here, is an html version. Thanks to. Lawrence Mayer for it. In our experience, the silent switch is usually sufficient for a. But to be completely sure, we recommend sp silent norestart. Note that the verysilent switch may reboot the machine without. So if you use. verysilent, be sure to use norestart as well. Nullsoft Scriptable Install System. The Nullsoft Scriptable. Install System NSIS is another open source installation system. It was. created by the Win. Amp authors. to distribute that application, but it is now a general purpose system which anyone might. When an NSIS installer runs, it creates a little window which says verifying installer N, where N counts from 0 to. So you can recognize these installers by this behavior. Actually the. verification procedure is optional, but most installers have it enabled. As an. alternative, you can run strings and grep for NSIS. NSIS installers recognize S for silent installation. NCRC to suppress the CRC verification step, and Ddir to specify the output directory, which is where the. These options are case sensitive, so. Incidentally, all S does is change the installer scripts Silent. Install attribute from normal to. What effect this has, exactly, depends on the person who. If S does not perform a silent install, consider. Ghost installer. Ethalones Ghost installer. The free edition is nothing but the compiler, which takes XML files the. XML files. When a Ghost installer runs, it creates a little graphical window which says. Ghost installer wizard. Setup is preparing the Ghost Installer. Ghost installers recognize s case sensitive for silent. If you have trouble to get it silent you might try to guess internal variables. My. Varvalue. Unfortunately, using strings will not help you. See here. Other command line parameters are r repair. Microsoft hotfixes and older packages. Most Microsoft hotfixes respond to the According to KB. KB article 8. 24. Microsoft is moving towards standardized. But they are not done yet. Modern hotfixes support passive formerly u for. Some hotfixes use an old Microsoft packaging technology called. IExpress, whose switches are more or less documented in KB article 1. USENET post. These installers first extract some stuff. They. support the t path switch to specify the temporary. Specifying just c suppresses running the command at. These packages support the q switch for quiet operation, except. They also support the r n switch to suppress the reboot. Sometimes these do not work and you. NOTE in KB article 3. Leave it to Microsoft to make systems administration an experimental science. If all else fails.