salt-minion-windows
Compiled Binary of salt-minion for windows and related files to build that.
Because I wanna install salt-minion by puppet silently, but the official setup does not work as they said here. The setup.exe fetch vcredist in the background and popup a 'confirm box' when
download failed, although you use Salt-Minion-0.17.0-Setup-amd64.exe /S /master=yoursaltmaster /minion-name=yourminionname this command as they taught.
Some guys else also encounter the same problem
What's the problem
After searching the code by 'VC redist package download', and you will find the file ./pkg/windows/installer/Salt-Minion-Setup.nsi which is the spec file to build setup binary. And what's strange is the code of popup box are commented like this, but the binary Salt-Minion-2014.1.7-AMD64-Setup.exe do the download in fact. So I suspect the saltstack team used a different nsi file to built the official binary. I decide compile the binary by myself to prove that. This is the reference.
Process
Before you start, there are something you'd better know
Flow the official reference to build your environment and make a little modification to Salt-Minion-Setup.nsi, you can find in my repository.
In the dep path, there are dependent binaris. dep/install.bat may help you.
finally you will get your setup binary that can be installed silently.
Reference
nsi script specification