Silent Install Madness

[haralds]

My Silent Install is broken. It only passes one parameter, a user serialnumber. Setup.ini has something like this:

[SetupValues]
%UserSerialNumber%=emx100005b1

In preinstall, I have this

local INI_Serial_Number = SessionVar.Expand("%UserSerialNumber%");
...
if ( INI_Serial_Number ~= "%UserSerialNumber%" ) then
SetupData.WriteToLogFile("Info\tINI File entered key: "..INI_Serial_Number..".\r\n",true);
end

Running something like C:\Setup.exe /C:\Setup.ini

I never get the value from the ini file. This used to work...

[Ulrich]

A few things to check:

• Is silent/unattended install enabled in the project? (see Project Settings > Advanced)
• What does the installation log file show?
• The proper command line syntax would be something like setup.exe /S:C:\setup.ini

Ulrich

[haralds]

Typo, I meant /S:C:\Setup.ini

[Ulrich]

Okay, what about the other two points? In the log file, you should see that the Session Variable was set by the content of the INI file. If you see this entry, then there might be a flaw in the script. Or, if you did not enable the handling of the /S parameter for the project, the INI file is ignored completely.

[03/24/2015 22:33:16] Info	INI File entered key: emx100005b1

Ulrich

[haralds]

Silent install is enabled, everything works otherwise as expected. If I enter an incorrect path, the INI file gets a not-valid error, so the file is recognized.

I tested the previous version of Setup factory and tested on Windows 7 as well as 8.1 - still get a failure.

I have created a very simple test project that fails in the same way. It is attached as Test.zip.

Probably something stupid I am doing, but I am stumped...

[haralds]

In regards to the log - see the test project.

My INI variable is %UserSerialNumber%

After I do a SessionVar.Expand("%UserSerialNumber%"), all it returns is %UserSerialNumber%, not what is equated in the INI file.

[Ulrich]

Your INI file is UTF-8 encoded. You cannot process Unicode/UTF encoded files with Setup Factory, use ANSI encoding instead.

Ulrich

[haralds]

Ugh - I just LOVE Windows...

Thanks. I should have checked that...