We are switching to use Wise for Windows Installer after many years of using the script based Wise InstallMaster. I thought we were stuffed when I found that the command line compile wouldn't scan folders for added/removed files. Eventually I discoverd that wfwi (the Wise for Windows Installer GUI) is scriptable using OLE.

After a lot of mucking about and consultation of rather incomplete documentation and example (VB) code, I created the following "Hello World" test code which adds a file to the first "Feature", saves the updated .wsi ('source' file), then compiles to generate the .msi (install file).

Note in particular that despite the documentation describing item as a property, it is used as a method to access a given item in a collection ($features->item (0))! Note too that the item index is 0 based.

use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE;

my $wfwi = Win32::OLE->new ('WFWI.WFWIProject');

$wfwi->Open ('C:\installer\delme.wsi');

my $features = $wfwi->Features ();
my $feature = $features->item (0);

$feature->AddFile ('C:\source\helloWorld.txt', 'C:\Program Files\targe
+t\helloWorld.txt');

my $result = $wfwi->Save ('C:\installer\delme.wsi');
$result = $wfwi->Compile ('C:\installer\delme.msi');

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In reply to Automating Wise for Windows Installer - wfwi by GrandFather

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