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Asked: 2026-05-11T00:10:48+00:00

Basically what I need is an automated way to update the product version number

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Basically what I need is an automated way to update the product version number in WiX (3.0 with Votive etc), and then get that version number into an Inno Setup ‘bootstrapper’

I pretty much have the process mostly automated, however version numbers still need to be updated manually which obviously isn’t ideal, but I couldn’t find how to pass in values to Inno Setup at compile time (and how to reference them), and in the WiX project I need to know how to reference the version number of a different project in the same solution in Visual Studio 2008

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  1. No need to pass anything! You can simply let the InnoSetup Preprocessor read the version info straight from the binary’s version resource, e.g.:

    #define AppName 'My App' #define SrcApp 'MyApp.exe' #define FileVerStr GetFileVersion(SrcApp) #define StripBuild(str VerStr) Copy(VerStr, 1, RPos('.', VerStr)-1) #define AppVerStr StripBuild(FileVerStr)  [Setup] AppName={#AppName} AppVersion={#AppVerStr} AppVerName={#AppName} {#AppVerStr} UninstallDisplayName={#AppName} {#AppVerStr} VersionInfoVersion={#FileVerStr} VersionInfoTextVersion={#AppVerStr} OutputBaseFilename=MyApp-{#FileVerStr}-setup

    Before version 5.4.1 (2011-02-09) ISPP was not included in the default InnoSetup package. You had to download the InnoSetup Quick Start Pack: http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php#qsp (thanks @Gwyn, for the update)

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