Windows inno installer - trying to add AAX plugin

[Lindon]

First anyone any idea what i should be installing from the Binaries/Compiled/ folder for windows and AAX?

I see:
ProductName.aaxplugin
and
Productname.aaxdll

The first of these inno wont recognise as a file - I think this cause windows thinks its a folder

Anyone with AAX on windows installer experience?

[Christoph Hart]

@Lindon .aaxplugin is the one and yes it‘s a folder.

[Lindon]

@Christoph-Hart said in Windows inno installer - trying to add AAX plugin:

@Lindon .aaxplugin is the one and yes it‘s a folder.

Thanks.

So for anyone struggling with this.

You must install the AAXplugin folder, and everything in it, as well as setting up some additional stuff specifically(it seems)...
So first thing it is useful to #define the Avid directory & the binary name..

#define AvidDir "{commoncf64}\Avid\Audio\Plug-Ins"
#define BinaryName "MyProduct"

Then you must declare the additional dir in the [Dirs] section like this:

[Dirs]
Name: "{#AvidDir}\{#BinaryName}.aaxplugin"; Check: Is64BitInstallMode; Components:aax_64; Attribs: system;

Then in the [Files] section declare everything you want to install...

; AAX
Source: "Binaries\Compiled\AAX\{#BinaryName}.aaxplugin\*"; DestDir: "{#AvidDir}\{#BinaryName}.aaxplugin"; Flags:ignoreversion createallsubdirs recursesubdirs; Check: Is64BitInstallMode; Components:aax_64;
Source: "Binaries\Compiled\AAX\{#BinaryName}.aaxplugin\desktop.ini"; DestDir: "{#AvidDir}\{#BinaryName}.aaxplugin"; Flags:ignoreversion; Attribs: hidden system; Check: Is64BitInstallMode; Components:aax_64;
Source: "Binaries\Compiled\AAX\{#BinaryName}.aaxplugin\PlugIn.ico"; DestDir: "{#AvidDir}\{#BinaryName}.aaxplugin"; Flags:ignoreversion; Attribs: hidden system; Check: Is64BitInstallMode; Components:aax_64;

SO I've done all this, and it builds and runs....but as I have no ProTools to test on here in the studio...I'm just crossing my fingers that this works.

If theres anything wrong with the stuff above please let me know....

[Dan Korneff]

@Lindon This is exactly what my script looks like. You should be good to go.
Don't you get a developer version of PT with the AVID SDK? I've never tried it cause I have the subscription

[Lindon]

@Dan-Korneff said in Windows inno installer - trying to add AAX plugin:

@Lindon This is exactly what my script looks like. You should be good to go.
Don't you get a developer version of PT with the AVID SDK? I've never tried it cause I have the subscription

Yep you do, but then you have to install it .....and I'm Lazy (<-no that's not another T-Shirt David...)