setup.iss file is not generated

installshield silent-installer
Omer Dagan picture Omer Dagan · Nov 5, 2013 · Viewed 15k times · Source

I have a installshiled project which generates setup.exe file. I'd like to enable silent install by generating proper setup.iss file. I ran the following command:

Setup.exe /r

which lunched the installer, but it never created the setup.iss file. I looked in C:\Windows as the documentation suggested, as well as some other locations (local directory, program files etc.)

Why isn't it created and how to fix?

Thanks,

Answer

Omer Dagan picture Omer Dagan · Nov 5, 2013

Ok I found the problem, and a workaround:

The problem was that my msi project was a Basic MSI Project, as opposed to InstallScript and InstallScript MSI projects. This kind of project does not support reading a response file (aka setup.iss). However, there is a way to perform silent installation for the .msi / setup.exe file:

Setup.exe /s /v"/qn"

will do the trick.

All of this information can be found here

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