TeamCity - How to create an installer package?

Question

I'm pretty new with TeamCity but have 2-3 years experience with CC.NET-t. I'm familiar with MSBuild but maybe TeamCity has other ways to build things.

I see that TeamCity has a nice UI and great plug-in framework. But I have no idea how can I configure an installer package build.

My questions:

• I've checked out the source and built the artifacts (some dll and exe). There is no problem, but
• how can I create a zip package "on TeamCity way"? (Project/artifact dependency?)
• how can I create a NSIS installer "on TeamCity way"?

Can I download plugins or tutorials? Or I have no other choice just MSBuild?

Answer 1

There are some build runner plugins for TeamCity and you can roll your own but I believe the "TeamCity way" is to do that in your build script... since it's a build server right?

And you might want to check out the MSBuild Extension Pack which has a lot of nice-to-haves stuffs like zipping and registry access and whatnot... which will definitely help with those zip and nsis task.