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How do I configure an .ini file for the new self extracting installer? [message #1857462]

Wed, 08 February 2023 16:38

Eclipse User

I am using a self hosted EclipseProductCatalog for many years now and had packaged up an eclipse installer for my teams to download and run. However recently the installer broke and I am attempting to update the code base of the installer with the latest version. However when I download the latest self extracting installer that only contains a ".exe" file, I can't seem to figure out to to redirect it on first run to point to my product catalog. In the old version I had an ".ini" file with the same name as the installer (eclipse-inst.ini) and placed it in the directory with the eclipse-inst.exe and added the product catalog redirect.

The new installer isn't reading the .ini file at all and it is not redirecting to the product catalog. How can I fix this?

Thanks!

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Re: How do I configure an .ini file for the new self extracting installer? [message #1857466 is a reply to message #1857462]

Thu, 09 February 2023 01:48

Eclipse User

The self extracting installer does not only contain a *.exe it, contains the *.zip available here:

https://download.eclipse.org/justj/?file=oomph/products

Note that there are versions of the installer now where the installer product itself contains a JRE; those package the product up as a tar file and use this new descriptor format:

https://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/tree/plugins/org.eclipse.oomph.extractor/Concat/descriptor-tar-64.txt

The base extract executable is there:

https://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/tree/plugins/org.eclipse.oomph.extractor/extractor-64.exe

If you do a local Tycho build in the Oomph IDE, it will build all these variations of the installer for you:

https://www.eclipse.org/setups/installer/?url=http://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/plain/setups/configurations/OomphConfiguration.setup&show=true

In the external tools, there is a launcher to do the Tycho build. Perhaps you just want to make your modifications in that IDE and let it do the build. You can certainly look at how the build works. It uses this script:

https://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/tree/plugins/org.eclipse.oomph.extractor/Concat/repackage.sh

Shipping an installer with a JRE is one less point of failure....

Re: How do I configure an .ini file for the new self extracting installer? [message #1857485 is a reply to message #1857466]

Thu, 09 February 2023 14:48

Eclipse User

Thank you Ed! I could not find a download package anywhere that included the the eclipse files in the zip file. That link was perfect and solved out problem. We were able to drop in our .ini file and point to our hosted setup file.

Edit* Just a note that the reason we can't use the embedded JRE is because our setup file is hosted on an internal artifactory instance with a self signed https cert. Using the public JRE it errors out for us.

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