Create an installer for AMIS

What you need

•  NSIS or  Unicode NSIS, with the following plugins:
  •  Registry
  •  LogEx
  •  AccessControl
  •  ExecDos
•  Perl and the LibXML module. This works for installing the LibXML module:

  ppm repo add http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/
  ppm install XML::LibXML
  

• an AMIS build
• A build of the language pack you want to include (if not English)
• Get the latest VC 2005 redistributable package from Microsoft and save as c:\devel\vcredist_x86.exe (or alter the make-amis-installer.bat to refer to wherever you've saved it).

Steps

1. From the source code of AMIS, open /amis/trunk/amis/installer/main/setup-amis3.nsi
2. Edit these lines so they are specific to your machine:

;this is the path to your windows system 32 directory
!define WIN32_DIR "c:\windows\system32"

;this is the path to your Application Data directory
!define LOCAL_APP_DATA "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data"

3. Run make-amis-installer.bat and include the name of the language pack, both by language ID and language name, and the filename for the HTML user guide. Like this:

make-amis-installer.bat eng-US "U.S. English" amishelp.html

4. If there were no errors, you should have an exe file ready for distribution in the same directory as the scripts.