Create your own msi installers for your apps

[CoffeeFiend]

I tried creating an msi for firefox but I always fail.

Firefox isn't one of those easy to repack simple apps. It's a lot easier to just make it install silently. SiMoNsAyS has made a guide. (it doesn't *need* be thing complex/in depth mind you... It's rather quick/easy really)

@Kurt476 - Buddy, you made 136 posts in 5 days of being suscribed!! Lots of your posts are getting closed (I don't think moderators are being happy about that either), and most could be avoided by either searching, or doing some reading (or "learning" a bit). There's plenty of guides on how to do this, the repackaging apps come with manuals, guides and what not. I'm sure you'd find more by searching on the foums and the net too.

Realize that as much as you want to get this done and over with right now, it's just not gonna happen. You gotta search, find things on your own, learn how to deal with certain things... You can't just ask about everything over and over again, hoping someone will answer it all for you, premake all your scripts or such. This will be a long journey, it will take time (most of us have been working on this for weeks or months), a few things won't be easy. You'll have to learn a lot, try a lot of things, do mistakes and learn from them. It DOES require some dedication, efforts and trying hard to get there. We can't hand you all the command lines, all the settings and explain everything. Sometimes, you just have find out for yourself.

And like Alanoll's signature says:

If there are anything i can't stand more, it's bad grammar. If it's slight grammar problems or I know you're from another country that doesn't natively speak english, that's fine. But it's when you obviously should be able to speak the language, you still don't make an attempt)

English isn't that hard of a language (It's not my primary language either). If anyone was to go over your posts, they'd wouldn't need a dictionnary or anything to find out lots of pretty obvious syntax/grammar problems.

No, I'm not a moderator but let's use some common sense. I think most people agree with this... And again, don't take this personally, it's not meant to be a personnal attack or anything like that...

[mazin]

@Y3PP3R

The page you linked is useful for reading! Explanations put there fall short of practical creation of MSIs, which is sometimes very complicated.

For Winamp, as an example, it may take you several minutes to create your own package.

But it may take you several nights/days if your purpose is to share your package.

In either situation, the work you do is completely different!! Also, it requires different levels of knowledge. Different approaches are also used in either situation.

Also, be aware that WinINSTALL LE lacks two important features:

- It doesn't create a GUI for attended installation.

- You can not touch the properties of your package, as it doesn't display the Properties Table of your MSI.

However, going with the free apps, you can use two additional free apps to fill the missing features of WinINSTALL LE.

Anyway, it's good you opened the hell!

@RogueSpear

I used your package of Winamp that's shipped with DFX. It's really a nice one.

@Alanoll

My guide focused on MSI editing in the first place. Many times I wanted to post guides there for packaging, but it's always time (the rare commodity).

I feel sorry for that.

I think it's a good opportunity that Y3PP3R created a new topic for this.

@everybody

If you don't have Win2000 Server CD, this is a direct download link for WinINSTALL LE.

[totoymola]

Firefox isn't one of those easy to repack simple apps. It's a lot easier to just make it install silently. SiMoNsAyS has made a guide. (it doesn't *need* be thing complex/in depth mind you... It's rather quick/easy really)

Yup. I used his/their guide a couple of months ago. I just wanna try something new for me. I want to learn, that's why I'm trying different things.

You gotta search, find things on your own, learn how to deal with certain things... You can't just ask about everything over and over again, hoping someone will answer it all for you, premake all your scripts or such. This will be a long journey, it will take time (most of us have been working on this for weeks or months), a few things won't be easy. You'll have to learn a lot, try a lot of things, do mistakes and learn from them. It DOES require some dedication, efforts and trying hard to get there. We can't hand you all the command lines, all the settings and explain everything. Sometimes, you just have find out for yourself.

Hahaha.. I strongly agree with this. Honestly, learning is VERY painful for me. It's a struggle. But I'm trying my best to search for answers to my questions, and to learn.

OFF TOPIC: By the way, I successfully built a basic firefox msi. I'm just having problems with the extensions. But other than that, it is almost perfect.