Stand-Alone Builder (SAB)

InstallShield 11 Universal

Available in InstallShield Universal Premier and Professional Only

The Stand-alone Builder (SAB) is a minimal version or subset of the InstallShield Universal interface. When installed on the target machine, it is only used to build a preauthored InstallShield Universal project (.uip file). The SAB cannot be used for authoring a new or modifying an existing project file.

The SAB is useful for build engineers who do not need to create or modify installation projects—they only require the capability to build projects.

Since the user interface-related functionality has been removed, SAB cannot be run in UI mode—it only works in command line mode, and it accepts all valid command line build arguments. The only exception is that the first argument must be a valid, absolute path to the project file.

Attempting to start the SAB in UI mode fails and aborts the application with a error message.
Context-sensitive help is not included with the SAB, and there is no access to the Universal Help Library.

Obtaining the SAB

The SAB is only available to current owners of InstallShield Universal, and it is obtained using the InstallShield Update Service (ISUS). You can click the Check Update command in the Tools menu to manually execute ISUS, which immediately checks for updates to Universal. Or, you can wait until Universal performs its regular check for updates when you open the interface and install it at that time. The SAB is listed as an available update, and can be installed at any time.

Using the SAB

To use the SAB, type the following command line command in a terminal window. Either open the terminal window in the directory where the SAB is installed or type an absolute path to it.

<path to the SAB home directory> <absolute path to project file><file name>.uip <valid build command line options>

where:

<path to the SAB home directory> is required if the terminal window was not opened in the SAB home directory.
<absolute path to project file> is the absolute path to the <project file name>.uip.
<valid build command line options> are the optional, valid build command line commands.

"sab.exe" is the name of the executable for the SAB on Windows; "sab.bin" is the name of the executable for the SAB on UNIX.

Example Command Line Commands

Double-quotes are used in the Windows example because there are spaces in the folder name.

On Windows Platforms

"C:\Program Files\InstallShield\Universal\StandAlone\sab.exe" C:\workspace\projects\Universal\MyCoolUtils.uip -xsl C:\workspace\projects\Universal\XSL\ChangeProductName.xsl

On UNIX Platforms

/opt/InstallShield/Universal/StandAlone/sab.bin /home/product1/projects/Universal/MyCoolUtils.uip -xsl /home/product1/projects/Universal/XSL/ChangeProductName.xsl