How to quickly produce a cab file with many files inside ?

Hi everybody,

I've produced a soft for Windows Mobile 2003. For many reasons, this
soft needs a lot of files installed on the device, for running.

I'm trying to produce a cab file which includes these files (let's say
an hundred).

I know cabwiz and the INF files, but it will be very time consuming to
write the inf file describing all the files !! :-((

Is there a tip for handling a large amount of files in INF files ?
SOmething like wildcard :

[SourceDisksFiles]
*.wav = 1

or directory :

[SourceDisksFiles]
/MyDirectory = 1

Thanks for any help.

Chris
Wed Sep 14 14:24:01 CDT 2005

Write a simple app or batch file that generates the INF file for you.

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"Zenon" <zenonDelee0@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1126725186.389642.319770@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi everybody,
>
> I've produced a soft for Windows Mobile 2003. For many reasons, this
> soft needs a lot of files installed on the device, for running.
>
> I'm trying to produce a cab file which includes these files (let's say
> an hundred).
>
> I know cabwiz and the INF files, but it will be very time consuming to
> write the inf file describing all the files !! :-((
>
> Is there a tip for handling a large amount of files in INF files ?
> SOmething like wildcard :
>
> [SourceDisksFiles]
> *.wav = 1
>
> or directory :
>
> [SourceDisksFiles]
> /MyDirectory = 1
>
> Thanks for any help.
>

Zenon
Wed Sep 14 17:31:44 CDT 2005

Thanks for the idea.

I thought about that. Not really easy since the inf structure is really
complicated.

But it's a way, surely.

Steve
Wed Sep 14 20:21:34 CDT 2005

You could try the cab manager from http://www.ocpsoftware.com/ might make
things a tad easier for you.

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Steve Maillet
EmbeddedFusion
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smaillet at EmbeddedFusion dot com

Alex
Wed Sep 14 20:58:32 CDT 2005

Get Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and create a SmartCab projects (under Setup
and Deployment Projects). Add your files to it. Once you build it, in the
output directory you will find your INF file

"Zenon" <zenonDelee0@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1126725186.389642.319770@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi everybody,
>
> I've produced a soft for Windows Mobile 2003. For many reasons, this
> soft needs a lot of files installed on the device, for running.
>
> I'm trying to produce a cab file which includes these files (let's say
> an hundred).
>
> I know cabwiz and the INF files, but it will be very time consuming to
> write the inf file describing all the files !! :-((
>
> Is there a tip for handling a large amount of files in INF files ?
> SOmething like wildcard :
>
> [SourceDisksFiles]
> *.wav = 1
>
> or directory :
>
> [SourceDisksFiles]
> /MyDirectory = 1
>
> Thanks for any help.
>

nonamehkg
Thu Sep 15 00:40:17 CDT 2005

Yes, I tried that with a little .js script

But I got some problems. I have text files of the same name in many sub
folders, and I don't know how to tell the system which file in which
folder to copy.

It's hard to understand what I say, so some code here:

[SourceDisksNames]
1 = ,"",,..\A
2 = ,"",,..\B

[SourceDisksFiles]
"example.txt"=1
"example.txt"=2

[MyData1]
example.txt,example.txt <-- I want the .txt in ..\A

[MyData2]
example.txt,example.txt <-- I want the .txt in ..\B

It always copies the last one which is ..\B\example.txt. I can't figure
it out how to do it, and no documentation mentioned
that??

JR
Tue Sep 20 10:22:05 CDT 2005

If you are using VS 2005 it will build a CAB and INF for you if you attach a

"Other Project Types" -> "Setup and deployment" -> "Smart Device CAB
project"

I've used it and it works great. You can even change the registry and move
files to multiple directories. Also a program
called EZSetup will let you make an easy deployment executable so you can
deploy your app from a host computer :)

JR

"Steve Maillet (eMVP)" <nospam1@EntelechyConsulting.com> wrote in message
news:eaKXVPZuFHA.612@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> You could try the cab manager from http://www.ocpsoftware.com/ might make
> things a tad easier for you.
>
> --
> Steve Maillet
> EmbeddedFusion
> www.EmbeddedFusion.com
> smaillet at EmbeddedFusion dot com
>
>