Inno Setup for Windows service?
You don't need installutil.exe
and probably you don't even have rights to redistribute it.
Here is the way I'm doing it in my application:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Configuration.Install;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using System.ServiceProcess;
using System.Text;
static void Main(string[] args)
{
if (System.Environment.UserInteractive)
{
string parameter = string.Concat(args);
switch (parameter)
{
case "--install":
ManagedInstallerClass.InstallHelper(new string[] { Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location });
break;
case "--uninstall":
ManagedInstallerClass.InstallHelper(new string[] { "/u", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location });
break;
}
}
else
{
ServiceBase.Run(new WindowsService());
}
}
Basically you can have your service to install/uninstall on its own by using ManagedInstallerClass
as shown in my example.
Then it's just matter of adding into your InnoSetup script something like this:
[Run]
Filename: "{app}\MYSERVICE.EXE"; Parameters: "--install"
[UninstallRun]
Filename: "{app}\MYSERVICE.EXE"; Parameters: "--uninstall"
Here's how i did it:
Exec(ExpandConstant('{dotnet40}\InstallUtil.exe'), ServiceLocation, '', SW_HIDE, ewWaitUntilTerminated, ResultCode);
Apparently, Inno setup has the following constants for referencing the .NET folder on your system:
- {dotnet11}
- {dotnet20}
- {dotnet2032}
- {dotnet2064}
- {dotnet40}
- {dotnet4032}
- {dotnet4064}
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