Build time automation?

[midtech]

We need to generate 4 different SETUP.exe's. Ideally, we would be able to run SF 4 times in a batch process, passing in different design-time constants.

Presently, we are looking at changing the design-time constants manually and running SF 4 times. (We anticipate this number growing to 12 in the near future.)

Can anyone think of a clever way to do this, perhaps employing the Run Before Build capability?

Or more specifically, is there any way to establish the value of a design-time constant other than manually setting it up? Can SF be run from another process in such a way as to generate the output SETUP.exe?

Thanks for any ideas.

[Brett]

Re: Build time automation?

I do it all the time. Checl out this link:

http://www.setupfactory.com/webhelp/...ne_Options.htm

See the /B option. Basically you make an INI file with the constants and pass it in on the command line. We use this on our automated builds here at IR.

[midtech]

Re: Build time automation?

Thanks Brett, this appears to be exactly what we need.