Installing isolated instance of MySQL on Windows using silent install with .msi
- by Abram
I'm trying to write an installer for an internal application we wrote. After it installs our application it then installs MySQL using the .msi installer in silent mode. I specify the install dir and data dir to that of a directory within my application's install directory, such as:
msiexec /i @@MYSQL_INSTALLER_FILE@@ /qn
INSTALLDIR="@@INSTALL_DIR@@\MySQL\"
DATADIR="@@INSTALL_DIR@@\MySQL\"
USERNAME="@@DB_USER@@" PASSWORD="@@DB_PASS@@"
(the @@variable@@'s are replace by my installer routine using InstallJammer)
Once installed, I use mysqld.exe to install a windows service with a custom service name and defaults file like so:
mysqld.exe --install CustomMySQL --defaults-file="@@INSTALL_DIR@@\MySQL\my.ini"
This works fine as long as there is not already another instance of MySQL installed. If there is it silently fails to install MySQL. Running the msi installer manually (double-click) shows an error that a previous version is already installed and just aborts.
Is there a way to automate installing MySQL as an isolated instance, regardless of whether another version/instance is already installed?
