PA.Utilities.InnoSetupTask is a tool to automaticaly generate innosetup installer during build

$ nuget install PA.Utilities.InnoSetupTask

For single project solution

1. Create iss file and setup.config at the root of the project

2. iss file is internally preprocessed during build

• Project information is added to [setup] section
• Project dependencies are added to [file] section
• Custom code is added to code [section]

2. preprocessed iss file is built with ISCC (currently supporting innosetup 5.5.9)

3. setup is delivered in $(outputPath)/Output folder, otherwise specified in iss file

With multiple project solutions

1. Create setup empty project (eg: SetupProject)

2. Add all projects concerned by setup as reference

3. For all referenced project, add a setup.config (a default one is generated if not found)

4. iss file is internally preprocessed during build

• Project information is added to [setup] section
• Project dependencies are added to [file] section as source
• Custom code is added to [code] section

5. Preprocessed iss file is built with ISCC (currently supporting innosetup 5.5.9)

6. Setup is delivered in SetupProject/$(outputPath)/Output folder, otherwise specified in iss file

Setup.config is a xml file used at project level to specify component and destdir for each output of current project

setup element is the root element

• component attribute must be initialy defined in [components] section of iss file

target element specify behavior for project main binary

• destdir attribute specify destination directory during intall (iss variables are supported, identified special folders are replaced by corresponding iss variable)
• task attribute must be initialy defined in [task] section of iss file

dependencies element specify behavior for project dependencies

• destdir attribute specify destination directory during intall (iss variables are supported, identified special folders are replaced by corresponding iss variable)
• task attribute must be initialy defined in [task] section of iss file

files element specify behavior for files marked for copy to output directory

• destdir attribute specify destination directory during intall (iss variables are supported, identified special folders are replaced by corresponding iss variable)
• task attribute must be initialy defined in [task] section of iss file

If a file appears in multiple project, only one source is created by destdir. tasks and component are handled with boolean expressions

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<setup components="Common">
  <target destdir="{app}\." />
  <dependencies destdir="{app}\." />
  <files destdir="{app}\." />
</setup>

Works well with GitVersion in order to get the semantic version of the commit being built.

Copyright (c) 2017 Thomas Gervais

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