"Windows cannot find 'setup.exe'...

[Wanda Wang]

I created setup.exe by:
copy /b 7zS.sfx + config.txt + vic.7z vicexe
Then I start vic.exe, always get the error as title.

config.txt is saved in UTF-8:
;!@Install@!UTF-8!
Title="VIC"
BeginPrompt="Do you want to install VIC?"
ExecuteFile="setup.exe"
;!@InstallEnd@!

vic.7z including 1 folder and 2 files, and setup.exe is one of these 2 files.

I tested setup.exe, and it run correctly without being compressed.

Why? Can anybody help? Thanks a lot in advance!

[Wanda Wang]

Sorry, there is a type error in the first note:
The cmd is: copy /b 7zS.sfx + config.txt + vic.7z vic.exe
And the problem is the same.

[Igor Pavlov]

Probably your setup.exe starts another exe file.
call
setup.exe /?
or look help file for setup.exe
to find the switch that makes setup.exe keep running all the time.

[Wanda Wang]

Hi ipavlov, my setup.exe is output of windows setup projects, it will not call other exe, it just call .msi file at the same path with it. I have compressed the .msi with setup.exe already.

Do you mean change ExecuteFile="setup.exe" to ExecuteFile="setup.exe \?", it did not take effect, also reported similar error.

[Wanda Wang]

The problem has been resolved: I did not compress the setup.exe at the root path, so vic.exe can not find it.

But now I got another error popup by Windwos Installer: "This intallation package could not be opened, Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer packge."

I checked by uncompressing vic.exe to a folder, and manually start setup.exe inside it, no such problem.

Then why?

[Wanda Wang]

The second problem is also resolved.
I googled by this error and find some clue, so I changed ExecuteFile="setup.exe" to ExecuteFile="my.msi", then ok.

One more thing, I still worry about the execution level, so I will test my vic.exe with UAC on, to check if the application be installed to the right place.