What is the best tool kit to transform .msi into .exe?

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MSI Customization: Customization of MSI files for installation is a built-in feature of the technology. there are two primary ways to customize the installation:

  1. Light Weight: You can set PUBLIC properties on the command line as a light weight form of customization, sample here and here, or…

    msiexec.exe /i setup.msi ADDLOCAL="Core,Spell" SERIALKEY="1234-1234" /qn

  2. Heavy Weight: Use transforms (database fragments of changes) to make large changes to the whole installer – you can change almost anything in the whole package.

    msiexec.exe /i setup.msi TRANSFORMS="mytransform.mst" /qn

Tools: Major MSI tools – the major tools available to make and customize MSI files. And some (primarily) free MSI tools. Orca can be used to make transforms – customization fragments for MSI files. See that last link for how to get it downloaded / installed.

msiexec.exe Command Line: The msiexec.exe command line is complex and somewhat unusual:

There is this ancient tool that can help to build command lines. No longer officially available, but it might be gotten from archives.

Links:

Further: Further links – just for reference, the above should suffice.

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