InstallAnywhere 2013
InstallAnywhere includes support for digitally signing your Windows-based installers (the installer .exe file, as well as the installer launcher and the uninstaller launcher) at build time. Digitally signing your Windows-based installers assures end users that your installers have not been tampered with or altered since release. End users are presented with a digital certificate when they run your installers.
If you have not digitally signed an installer, end users see an unknown publisher warning when they launch your installer on Windows XP SP2 and later.
The ability to digitally sign Windows-based installers at build time requires a personal information exchange file (.pfx) type of digital certificate. In addition, it requires that you are using InstallAnywhere on a Windows-based system. If you try to build a Windows-based installer on a non-Windows system, a build warning occurs, and InstallAnywhere does not sign the resulting installer.
Tip: If the certificate authority that issued you a digital certificate provided you with a private key file (.pvk) and a software publishing credentials file (.spc) instead of a .pfx file, you can use PVK2PFX.exe to create a .pfx file from the files that were provided to you. PVK2PFX.exe is part of the Microsoft Windows Platform SDK.
To specify digital signature information for your Windows-based installers:
1. | In the Advanced Designer, on the Project page, click Platforms. The Platforms view opens. |
2. | In the Windows area, configure each of the Digital Signing settings as needed. |
As an alternative to specifying the actual certificate file, password, and timestamp server in the Platforms Settings view, you can use build-time variables in these settings (that is, enclose the name of each variable within at symbols: @VariableName@). You can set build-time variables in the Variables view on the Project page, through a .properties file, or through environment variables. To learn more, see Resolving Variables at Build Time.
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InstallAnywhere 2013 Help LibraryOctober 2013 |
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