Patch Trouble

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:49 pm

I am trying to create a patch that is a single executable file through the command prompt.

The command I am running is as follows:

miabuild.exe "C:\\Projects\\foo.mpr" /b=3 /o="C:\\foo"

This ends up creating an Upgraded Package folder inside my Patch folder with several files. However, creating a patch from inside InstallAware creates a single desired file inside the Patch folder.

I noticed that Installaware is running makecab after the patching process.

What am I missing?

Thanks
Ryan

MichaelNesmith · Post by **MichaelNesmith** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:15 pm

It looks like your command line build is failing - what is the output of the build process?

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:52 am

aww I did get an error!

Error during build: Unable to create patch database [TargetImages.Target = 'Target1': PackageCode <''> is not unique.

However, I do not get this error when building out of InstallAware.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:36 pm

fixed it! added /r to always have a new revision be created.

MichaelNesmith · Post by **MichaelNesmith** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:22 pm

The command line build engine will error out only starting with InstallAware 9, so in previous versions, always trust the IDE compile result.