Building Releases from the Command Line

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You can build a release from the command line using ISCmdBld.exe for Windows Installer–based projects or ISBuild.exe for InstallScript projects. Building an installation in this way can be useful if you are trying to build from a batch file. Also, building a release from the command line using ISCmdBld.exe will handle the conversion of .ipr and .ipo files (object project files created using InstallShield Professional) to an .ism file in addition to building the release.

NOTE

An .ism file in either binary or XML format is accepted by the command-line build.

With the -u parameter, ISCmdBld.exe will only convert an .ipr or .ipo project to an .ism file.

You can build a release from the command line for a Standalone Build using IsSaBld.exe. The parameters listed here are valid for this build. The Standalone Build provides some additional parameters.