InstallAnywhere Tutorial and Reference Guide

InstallAnywhere Command-Line Build Facility

The InstallAnywhere Enterprise and Standard editions include functionality that allows you to perform command-line builds. This allows you to build your completed project without instantiating InstallAnywhere's graphical advanced designer interface.

The command-line build facility comes in the form of a second executable called build (Build.exe on Windows systems). This executable takes the full path to an InstallAnywhere .iap_xml file as an argument and, by default, will simply build the installer as specified in the project file.

For example, to build the OfficeSuite Installer that we've been developing throughout this book, you might use a command line similar to the following:

 C:> "C:\Program Files\InstallAnywhere ...