Create msi from a batch file

That’s right. You can wrap a .bat file instead of an executable installer.

Let’s say that you simply want to create a MSI package from a batch file and some other files belonging to that script. You can do that using the MSI Wrapper.

Here is an example of how to do that. The following code is a sample batch file, which will copy a test.txt file to the program files folder under the sub directory MSI Test.

REM -- Get the directory where this script running from
SET SCRIPTDIR=%~dp0

REM -- Copy file to program files
SET DESTDIR=%ProgramFiles%\MSI Test
IF NOT EXIST "%DESTDIR%" MD "%DESTDIR%"
COPY "%SCRIPTDIR%\test.txt" "%DESTDIR%\test.txt"

REM -- Return exit code 0
EXIT /B 0

Before you wrap this batch file, you place it in an folder together with the test.txt file. Then you specify it as the executable file in the MSI Wrapper.