MAKEMSI quickly and reliably creates MSI files in a non-programmatic way\Building or Updating MSIsMM Batch Files

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MM Batch Files

The "MM.CMD" (WinNT+) or "MM.BAT" (Win9x) are batch files that I have prepared which invoke the build process from the command line.

MAKEMSI installs one of this files based on your operating system and the build an MSI via right click explorer shortcuts call these batch files to do most of the actual work.

In some ways these batch files should be considered more as "examples" than critical parts of the build process. They really only "demonstrate" one possible way of invoking the build and are restricted to processing ".MM" files that reside in the "current directory" (an artificial restriction for ease of use).

MM.CMD - WinNT, WIN2000, WINXP, Vista or newer...

This batch takes one or two parameters:

1. Name of the .MM file
   This is the name of the ".MM" file. You may pass this name with or without the ".mm" file extension but the name should not include any path.

   If this name is not supplied then if there is only one ".MM" script in the current directory then it will be invoked otherwise all available scripts will be listed and you will need to pass one of these for this parameter!

2. The Processing Mode
   This indicates the processing mode you wish to use, it defaults to "development" if not supplied. Pass "D" for development or "P" for production (case insensitive).

There are quite a few environment variables that affect how this batch file operates. Any environment variables it sets are temporary ones as the batch file begins with a "setlocal" command.

Note that for testing you could set these environment variables from the command, for more permanent configuration youu would configure windows instead ("MyComputerPropertiesAdvancedEnvironment Variables" in WINXP).

You can use this batch file for silent (unattended) builds and the batch file will return "0" for success and non-zero otherwise.

This batch file has command line "shortcuts" to open explorer at particular directories if parameter 1 starts with "?", they are:

• ? - Opens TryMe samples directory.

• ?? - Opens MAKEMSI installation directory.

MM.BAT - WIN95 WIN98, WINME

This batch file is pretty basic (mainly due to DOS restrictions) and takes one or two parameters:

1. Name of the .MM file
   This is the name of the ".MM" file. It is not an optional parameter and you must pass the ".mm" file extension. Pass the "8.3" (short) name if the filename contains spaces.

2. The Processing Mode
   As per MM.CMD above.

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