Adobe AIR 1.5 - Package AIR installer as a native Windows Executable (.EXE)

Question

Hello StackOverflow community,

Is there any way to package the installer for an Adobe AIR application using Adobe AIR 1.5 as an executable (.EXE) file?

I found that this is possible for Adobe AIR 2.0, but it requires an upgrade to Adobe AIR 2.0 runtime. Are there any other options using the Adobe AIR 1.5 runtime?

Thanks, Mauricio

Answer 1

No. There is no known way to package an Adobe AIR application as a native executable installer. You would have to do it with the .air package installation only, if you want AIR 1.5.

Answer 2

I think this could be done with the silent install method and a bit of scripting. If you needed to install the runtime at the same time you would need to sign up for the AIR Runtime Distribution agreement. I'm not sure what benefit you would gain over the normal AIR installation tho.

Answer 3

You can join the program to redistribute the AIR Runtime.

http://www.adobe.com/products/air/runtime_agreement.html

I believe joining the program also provides you additional information about installing the AIR app and possibly the AIR runtime silently.

I think if you execute an AIR program with the '-silent' attribute you will get a silent install. Something similar at one point worked, at least, and I'm not sure of the exact command line argument.

Once you have those to things in place, it should be easy to launch the AIR runtime and/or AIR App installer from your own executable installer. There should be plenty of programs for creating the installer.

Answer 4

Nope, AIR 2.0 only.