How do I automate an offline install?

Question

We have an offline install of wwise created with the packages we need. I need to fully automate the installation for our builds system. Is there any documentation of command line parameters for WwiseLauncher or AkWwiseInstall that can assist us in creating a silent automated install?

Comments

I am also wanting to do this. I guess from the lack of responses it is not possible.

Answer 1

Wwise is portable.

You can copy the entire Wwise installation directory to your source control, and sync it to your build machine.

However, you need to make sure you install the requirements listed here (PDF reader and Quicktime are optional):
https://www.audiokinetic.com/library/edge/?source=InstallGuide&id=wwise_system_requirements

The most important note is:

It is not uncommon for a crash to occur due to one or multiple missing dependencies when installing Wwise without the Launcher. The dependencies required are the following: Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft DirectX, and Microsoft Visual Studio Redistributable. Installing the Authoring tool through the Launcher is less troublesome because you don't have to worry about the dependencies since they are automatically provided.

Comments

I've been struggling to automate the building of my soundbanks on our build machine and I found this post. I realize it is old but there really isn't much documentation out there on how to automate simple wwise tasks.

After some digging I don't think you can just say Wwise is portable. Our build machine is running Mac OS. On my local machine when I installed 2021.1.10 it installed the files at my chosen location but it also installs a bunch of apparently necessary files inside of the Library/Application Support/Audiokinetic folder.  This mucks up my process a bit because it requires sudo permissions to copy files to that location. This isn't access I have by default in my environment. So it has not been a simple "copy the entire Wwise installation directory to your source control" kind of situation. Perhaps it is portable on Windows? but really being able to install everything from an offline installer at the command line (and ideally without needing admin perms) would be much cleaner.