This is a quick guide on how to quickly switch between different version of Thinstall. You may find it necessary to keep multiple versions of the Thinstall software available to test with your applications. As such, the following directions will assist you in what is required to allow you to use multiple copies of Thinstall to build your .exe's with.

Every Thinstall project has a build.bat which, when run, will look for the Thinstall build utilities using the following search order:

1. Look at the environment variable THINSTALL_BIN
2. Depending on the version you downloaded
   • Look at
     • c:\Program files\Thinstall.VS
     • c:\program files\VMWare\Northstar

The Thinstall build utilities are the files vregtool.exe, vftool.exe, and tlink.exe. These files require SetupCapture.exe to be located in the same directory in order to run. All of these files will be installed by the original .msi installer to c:\program files. You can save a copy of c:\program files\Thinstall.VS to something like c:\thinstall_version_3.335 (or a directory of your choice). Over time, you can build a library of versions to test with by storing off the contents in a separate directory after installing.

Change the Environment Variable

All that is required to cause build.bat to use a different version is to change the environment variable THINSTALL_BIN

For example:

c:\myproject>

set THINSTALL_BIN= c:\thinstall_version_3.335

c:\myproject> build.bat