How to create windows installer (comprehensive links).Īnd a simpler list view of the most used development tools as of now (2018), for quicker reading and overview. UPDATE: A quick presentation of various deployment tools used to create 4) And there is obviously application repackaging -Ĭapturing the changes done to a computer after a setup has run andĬlean it up - requires a special tool (most of the free onesĬome and go, Advanced Installer Architect and AdminStudio are big Some claim successīy 3) opening the setup.exe in Visual Studio.
General Tricks: One trick is to launch the setup.exe and look in the 1) system's temp folder for extracted files.Īnother trick is to use 2) 7-Zip, WinRAR, WinZip or similarĪrchive tools to see if they can read the format. Whereas NSIS seems to use regular archives that standard archive software (7-zip et al) can open and extract. NSIS / Inno: Commmon, free tools such as Inno Setup seem to make extraction hard ( unofficial unpacker, not tried by me, run by ). ( non-MSI, MSI, admin-tools, multi-platform, etc.). There are so many possible tools that can be used. They might feature all kinds of different command line switches. Many Setup Tools: It is impossible to cover all the different kinds of possible setup.exe files. Microsoft's msiexec.exe documentation on MSDN.Msiexec /a File.msi TARGETDIR=C:\MyInstallPoint /qn MSI Extract: msiexec.exe / File.msi extraction: msiexec /a File.msi Installshield setup.exe commands ( sample).Installshield: Setup.exe and Update.exe Command-Line Parameters.Real-world, pragmatic Installshield setup.exe extraction.Temp Folder: And the last resort: launch the installer and then look for extracted files in the temp folder (more details below). Setup.exe /s /x /b"C:\FolderInWhichMSIWillBeExtracted" /v"/qn"ĭark.exe is a WiX binary - install WiX to extract a WiX setup.exe (as of now). Setup.exe Extract: (various flavors to try) setup.exe /a
Quick List: There are a number of common types of setup.exe files.
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