Creating Redistributable Installer

[ngiussani]

Hi,

I need help to find out what would be the appropiate way to create a redistributable copy of a simple application based on RapidSCADA, for a final user, who doesn’t need Server, Administrator, Scheme Editor, Table Editor and Communicator. It would be a simple installer that copies the necesary files and, I guess, registers services and system needed files. Is that possible? How easy/hard it would be?

I didn’t find any similar question. If there is any other, sorry for repeating.

[Mikhail]

Hi,

Yes, this is a new question.
I suggest this article http://doc.rapidscada.net/content/en/installation-and-run/manual-installation.html
The described steps are particular the same as Rapid SCADA installer performs.

[Mikhail]

Do you need Windows or Linux?

[ngiussani]

Hi Mikhail,

Thanks for your answer. I didn’t see that topic on the documentation. I think it can help.

I usually use Inno Setup to create installers for Windows. That is the platform I’m deploying right now, but I don’t know if I’ll need it for Linux in the near future.

[ngiussani]

I managed to make sort of an installer, but I encountered several issues, the principal being adding the application manually to the IIS Manager. Your installer does it automatically, so I’m wondering how is it done.

[Mikhail]

I used to develop an installer using Install Shield. It able to register web applications. Current Rapid SCADA installer is a C# application that provides maximum freedom on implementing installation steps. If needed I can share some code of it.

[ngiussani]

Mikhail,

Thank you very much. I’ll appreciate that. I’m mainly an embedded systems developer, so I’m a little out of my element with installers and so, but any reference would be very helpful to me. So, if isn’t too much to ask, I’ll be grateful if you share some reference code.

Once again, thank you for your time and dedication.

[Mikhail]

The installer.cs should be helpful.

[ngiussani]

Thanks very much. I’ll try to understand it and get and idea of how to use it.

[Author]

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