Using GetStringFileInfo in Setup section of Inno Setup

Question

After referencing GetStringFileInfo post, I try to read Assembly information and apply AppName and FileVersion to Inno Setup script as below.

But compiled installation wizard shows just "GetStringFileInfo("{#RootDirectory}Sample.exe","Title")" as a software title. The GetStringFileInfo was not processed at all. How can I make it run correctly?

#define RootDirectory "bin\Release\"

[Setup]
AppName=GetStringFileInfo("{#RootDirectory}Sample.exe","Title")
AppVersion=GetStringFileInfo("{#RootDirectory}Sample.exe","FileVersion")

Note that I'm using Script Studio and the file resides in setup.iss which created by Inno Setup wizard.

Andrew Truckle · Answer 1 · 2018-03-19T11:20:24.890

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This is an alternative approach based on the example provided with Inno Setup. Their code shows:

#define AppVersion GetFileVersion(AddBackslash(SourcePath) + "MyProg.exe")

[Setup]
AppVersion={#AppVersion}
VersionInfoVersion={#AppVersion}

I have cut out the rest of the example. Notice that the call to GetFileVersion was done outside of the [Setup] section. The other answer has a more direct way to do it within the [Setup] section.

edited Mar 19 '18 at 11:20

answered Mar 19 '18 at 11:13

Andrew Truckle

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I was not aware of that approach. Would have been nice if it was in the example files. Shall I add your answer to mine? Or just remove mine? – Andrew Truckle Mar 19 '18 at 11:15
Any better now? Feel free to tweak. – Andrew Truckle Mar 19 '18 at 11:20

Martin Prikryl · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-01T09:50:31.887

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GetStringFileInfo is a preprocessor function. A syntax for an inline call of a preprocessor function is:

AppName={#GetStringFileInfo(RootDirectory + "Sample.exe", "Title")}

edited Jun 01 '20 at 09:50

answered Mar 19 '18 at 11:13

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Using GetStringFileInfo in Setup section of Inno Setup

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