How can I use Ant & InnoSetup to place a directory at installation for JavaFX

Question

I am working on bundling an application as an EXE using INNO SETUP. I have it working, except for one thing.

My project structure looks like this:

src
  ->package
    ->java classes
properties
  ->properties file

The properties file (from external vendor), needs to be placed in a specific location - and I am not sure how to generate this with ANT and INNO.

The resulting file structure needs to look like this

app folder
  ->exe
    runtime
    app
    ->libs
      properties
        ->server.properties
      app.cfg
      app.jar

I am not really sure how to accomplish this.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I think using the [Files] section with Source and DestDir might work out here.

There are two (or even more) ways to do this:

You may prepare the directory structure beforehand with ant . That means you create the folder structure present after installation utilizing ant on your machine and tell Innosetup to include all files and folders and just extract them.

[Files]
Source: "x:\app folder\*"; DestDir: "{app}";

Or you work with your project folder structure and tell Innosetup to include your files from their specific locations in the project and copy them to specific destination directories.

[Files]
Source: "x:\project\properties\properties.xml"; DestDir: "{app}\app\properties\";