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I need to get a path name from an INI-file. I already know how to read a INI-file and asked a question here. This helped me a lot. Right now I am confused by dynamic paths. I run another program from within the setup, which works perfect. The path to this other program is written within my INI-File, it looks like this:

[setup]
FileOfOtherProgram="C:\Users\desktop\somefile\Other Program.exe"

This works. What I need right now is a dynamic path like this:

FileOfOtherProgram="..\somefile\Other Program.exe"

Which does not work but throws the following error:

Unable to execute file:
..\somefile\Other Program.exe

CreateProcess failed; code 267.
The directory name is invalid.

I read this question and answer on stackoverflow as well, which told me that it should work.

EDIT: I normally run the setup with /SILENT. When I tried it without this is what I got. On the wizard-page where I normally should enter a path for the Other Program.exe the path from the INI-file is pre-set. This works fine with normal fully qualified paths. But with the dynamic path I still get the exact string from the INI-file which would be (as sugeestet by S.Spieker) {src}\..\somefile\Other Program.exe

I can't figure out what to change to make this work, can you tell me what I did wrong or tell me that it is impossible?

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    It depends to which directory is that path relative. If it's relative to the directory from which the user executes the setup, then @S.Spieker's answer is correct. – TLama May 22 '15 at 07:41
  • @TLama I'm not sure if I got that right, but the setup.exe would be in `C:\Users\desktop\someotherfolder\setup.exe` – Viki Stepinfaith May 22 '15 at 12:16

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I think you have to add the base dir from where you want to get one folder up.

For example:

FileOfOtherProgram="{src}\..\somefile\Other Program.exe"
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  • That sounds great! Took my some time to figure it out completley though. I had to put the `GetIniString(..)` within in `expandConstant()` Now it works. THANK YOU! – Viki Stepinfaith May 22 '15 at 13:22