MAKEMSI quickly and reliably creates MSI files in a non-programmatic way\IntroductionSupported Operating Systems

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MAKEMSI should work well on any modern operating system, which in my opinion is WIN2000 and newer.

MAKEMSI works slightly less well in WinNT and again less so for WIN9X-ME. I am not very interested in fixing problems in WIN9X-ME unless something is actually broken.

Windows Vista

Should not have any issues.

Windows 2003

MAKEMSI has no issues with this operating system but there is a minor but annoying Windows bug which prevents automatic validation of created MSI installers (see "msival2.exe - Windows 2003 Bug").

Windows 2000 and XP

Should be absolutely no issue with these operating systems. The "MakeCab.EXE" tool already exists.

All my initial development was done using Windows 2000. I am now using Windows XP.

Windows NT4

I have done some testing under NT4, no problems encountered, I did have to copy "MakeCab.EXE" onto the machine (I put in the MAKEMSI install directory).

Windows 95, 98, ME

These don't work as well as NT, 2000 or XP but can still build MSIs. At this stage all my testing is done on WIN98 (and I don't test every release). Please let me know if you have any issues.

At this stage automatic validation is not performed or supported. I recommend that "ORCA" be used to manually validate any MSI built.

You must install "MakeCab.EXE" onto the machine. So far I have only been able to test on a WIN98SE box.

Certain features will be disabled or reduced if "MSVBVM60.DLL" is unavailable at install time. If this is installed after MAKEMSI then reinstall MAKEMSI.

Because these operating systems have major bugs in the way the command processor handles (or doesn't) return codes, error checking may not pick up faults, I have build extra validation into some of these steps and will review the situation when I have more time.

You will probably see some error messages being displayed which I will look into when I have more time, these are:

1. Directory already exists
2. Unable to create directory

These are not going to cause problems so don't worry! If you see others let me know (a screen dump would be nice).

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