Invalid FileInstall() function

[r2du-soft]

hello

i want create i installer, my installer script create a main installer and i want create more that 1 out put from that script

i a part of my installer in base section i have:

;-----------------------------------------------------
;#Local Variables
    Local $FileName
    Local $Check_EE
;-----------------------------------------------------

;-----------------------------------------------------
$Check_EE = "A"
;---
IF $Check_EE == "A" Then
    $FileName = "A.exe"
ElseIF $Check_EE == "B" Then
    $FileName = "B.exe"
ElseIF $Check_EE == "C" Then
    $FileName = "C.exe"
EndIF
;---
FileInstall (@ScriptDir & "\Files\" & $FileName, @TempDir & "\" & $FileName, 1)
;-----------------------------------------------------

in each compile i want change the $Check_EE value manually and compile manually

but i encounter the following error

i know this error is from using variable in FileInstall function: $FileName

 

also i try this:

;-----------------------------------------------------
;#Local Variables
    Local $FileName
    Local $Check_EE
;-----------------------------------------------------

;-----------------------------------------------------
$Check_EE = "B"
;---
IF $Check_EE == "A" Then
    FileInstall (@ScriptDir & "\Files\A.exe", @TempDir & "\" & $FileName, 1)
ElseIF $Check_EE == "B" Then
    FileInstall (@ScriptDir & "\Files\B.exe", @TempDir & "\" & $FileName, 1)
ElseIF $Check_EE == "C" Then
    FileInstall (@ScriptDir & "\Files\C.exe", @TempDir & "\" & $FileName, 1)
EndIF
;-----------------------------------------------------

but in fisrt compile all exe files include in my installer.exe and here the main problem with which I encounter is my installer.exe file size. OutPut file size...

Actually A.exe and B.exe also C.exe file size is more 100MB for each file.

The only solution that I came to it create some one script file and use once FileInstall in each script file...

I need to do one of the above steps and i dont know how can!????

really thanks

Edited March 28, 2020 by r2du-soft

[alienclone]

replace

@ScriptDir & "\Files\A.exe"

with

".\Files\A.exe"

Edited March 28, 2020 by alienclone

[r2du-soft]

;-----------------------------------------------------
;#Local Variables
    Local $FileName
    Local $Check_EE
;-----------------------------------------------------

;-----------------------------------------------------
$Check_EE = "A"
;---
IF $Check_EE == "A" Then
    $FileName = "A.exe"
ElseIF $Check_EE == "B" Then
    $FileName = "B.exe"
ElseIF $Check_EE == "C" Then
    $FileName = "C.exe"
EndIF
;---
FileInstall (".\Files\" & $FileName, @TempDir & "\" & $FileName, 1)
;-----------------------------------------------------

 

 

 

Actually i want use variable $FileName in FileInstall

 

[alienclone]

you cant use variables, you already know that.

[iamtheky]

you can, but not like that

;-----------------------------------------------------
;#Local Variables
    Local $Check_EE
;-----------------------------------------------------

;-----------------------------------------------------
$Check_EE = "A"
;---
IF $Check_EE == "A" Then
    assign("filename" , "A.exe")
ElseIF $Check_EE == "B" Then
    assign("filename" , "B.exe")
ElseIF $Check_EE == "C" Then
    assign("filename" , "B.exe")
EndIF
;---
FileInstall (@ScriptDir & "\" & eval("filename"), @ScriptDir & "\test\" & eval("filename"), 1)

 

[r2du-soft]

On 3/29/2020 at 4:55 AM, iamtheky said:

you can, but not like that

;-----------------------------------------------------
;#Local Variables
    Local $Check_EE
;-----------------------------------------------------

;-----------------------------------------------------
$Check_EE = "A"
;---
IF $Check_EE == "A" Then
    assign("filename" , "A.exe")
ElseIF $Check_EE == "B" Then
    assign("filename" , "B.exe")
ElseIF $Check_EE == "C" Then
    assign("filename" , "B.exe")
EndIF
;---
FileInstall (@ScriptDir & "\" & eval("filename"), @ScriptDir & "\test\" & eval("filename"), 1)

  

when compiling display error Invalid FileInstall() Function

😌

Edited March 30, 2020 by r2du-soft

[iamtheky]

wrapping shit in execute like this doesnt work either, it gets past the compiler but the resulting script fails.  This might entertain while we find a fun way to pull it off without too much maneuvering.

*Also, i feel that there is a long thread on this topic somewhere on the forum, but i cant find it yet.

ftr, gets past compiler, does not work once compiled:

;-----------------------------------------------------
;#Local Variables
    Local $Check_EE
;-----------------------------------------------------

;-----------------------------------------------------
$Check_EE = "A"
;---
IF $Check_EE == "A" Then
    assign("filename" , "A.exe")
ElseIF $Check_EE == "B" Then
    assign("filename" , "B.exe")
ElseIF $Check_EE == "C" Then
    assign("filename" , "B.exe")
EndIF
;---
execute('FileInstall (@ScriptDir & "\" & eval("filename"), @ScriptDir & "\test\" & eval("filename"), 1)')

 

Edited March 30, 2020 by iamtheky

[BrewManNH]

There is no way to use a variable in a fileinstall as the source file except as noted in the help file. Any other method that requires the script to interpret the variable will fail every single time. There is NO way for the compiler to know what the variable contains at compile time, it's not running the script it's just compiling. You should stop trying to figure out a way to circumvent this because every effort will fail and you'll be wasting your time. Unless you're bored and need to try and hack the compiler in your free time.

[Jos]

4 minutes ago, BrewManNH said:

Unless you're bored and need to try and hack the compiler in your free time.

... and even then: How would the logic need to be ? 

Jos

[BrewManNH]

I couldn't tell you, I don't push stones up hill all day when bored.

[Jos]

I've glanced at this thread but really would like the OP to state what needs to be the behaviour of the FileInstall when the compiled EXE is copied to another place or computer.

Jos

[iamtheky]

- If you can F5 it you can make it happen on the target.   Boredom made me give the question a plausible backstory like a server building custom deploys.  Asking if that's the optimal way to gather/stage files is what I would do if I wasnt stuck in quarantine, instead I am going to spend a couple of days to relearn all the fun ways to write droppers. 

- At worst, you have all the information at the end of that function to have the script write the line into a separate au3 on the fly and fire it.

And you find 1 or both of those to be Sisyphean?  I don’t see this ending with “you can’t” so much as in a sea of workarounds.

 

 

 

Edited March 30, 2020 by Melba23
the font is totally stuck like that - No it was not!

[BrewManNH]

1 hour ago, iamtheky said:

At worst, you have all the information at the end of that function to have the script write the line into a separate au3 on the fly and fire it.

I'm not sure what you're saying here, what's writing the file and what's firing that file, and what does that file eventually do?

[Jos]

@iamtheky,

Though you weren't the OP so why are you replying with this total off the wall story?
Maybe either let the OP respond with their true goal here or else simply state what it is you are trying as I no idea what you are trying to say in your last post.

Jos

 

 

[iamtheky]

Based off CheckEE creates a custom exe that fileinstalls only the payload assigned to the variable 'filename'.  Some of it unnecessary, Rube Goldberg style.  

;~ ;-----------------------------------------------------
;#Local Variables
    Local $Check_EE
;~ ;-----------------------------------------------------

;~ ;-----------------------------------------------------
$Check_EE = "A"
;---
IF $Check_EE == "A" Then
    assign("filename" , "A.exe")
ElseIF $Check_EE == "B" Then
    assign("filename" , "B.exe")
ElseIF $Check_EE == "C" Then
    assign("filename" , "B.exe")
EndIF
;---

$tgtfile = "testfileinstall_writeonfly_" & $Check_EE   ; file name based off result of If

FileWrite($tgtfile & ".au3" , 'FileInstall("' & @ScriptDir & '\' & eval("filename") & '", "' & @ScriptDir & '\test\' & eval("filename") & '")') ; Write the au3 that does the thing you want

runwait("cmd /c " & FileGetShortName(@ProgramFilesDir) & "\AutoIt3\Aut2Exe\Aut2exe.exe /in " & @ScriptDir & "\" & $tgtfile & ".au3")  ; compiles that au3 to an exe of the same name in the same dir

;~ run(@ScriptDir & "\" & $tgtfile & ".exe") ; runs that exe

 

Edited March 31, 2020 by iamtheky

[alienclone]

15 minutes ago, iamtheky said:

;~ ;-----------------------------------------------------
;#Local Variables
    Local $Check_EE
;~ ;-----------------------------------------------------

;~ ;-----------------------------------------------------
$Check_EE = "A"
;---
IF $Check_EE == "A" Then
    assign("filename" , "A.exe")
ElseIF $Check_EE == "B" Then
    assign("filename" , "B.exe")
ElseIF $Check_EE == "C" Then
    assign("filename" , "B.exe")
EndIF
;---

$tgtfile = "testfileinstall_writeonfly_" & $Check_EE   ; file name based off result of If

FileWrite($tgtfile & ".au3" , 'FileInstall("' & @ScriptDir & '\' & eval("filename") & '", "' & @ScriptDir & '\test\' & eval("filename") & '")') ; Write the au3 that does the thing you want

runwait("cmd /c " & FileGetShortName(@ProgramFilesDir) & "\AutoIt3\Aut2Exe\Aut2exe.exe /in " & @ScriptDir & "\" & $tgtfile & ".au3")  ; compiles that au3 to an exe of the same name in the same dir

;~ run(@ScriptDir & "\" & $tgtfile & ".exe") ; runs that exe

 

 

15 minutes ago, iamtheky said:

Based off CheckEE creates a custom exe that fileinstalls only the payload assigned to the variable 'filename'.  Some of it unnecessary, Rube Goldberg style.  

this is similar to something i used to do with one of my projects, it had a separate compiler script that would do my "if" checks then choose from pre-made scripts based on results then compile them.

i like this idea of the compiler script writing the .au3 file from scratch using variables.

Edited March 31, 2020 by alienclone

[Jos]

@iamtheky, (and others!)

Could you please stop polluting this thread with these off-topic scripts and give the OP time to state what they really wants to accomplish?

@r2du-soft, Please indicate what you want to accomplish with the FileInstall() that isn't working yet.

 

Thanks,
Jos

Edited March 31, 2020 by Jos