script to compile another script

[Emolas]

Is it possible to compile an au3 file with an AutoIT script?

[KaFu]

To compile you'll have to Fileinstall() the compiler , but as a work-around look up "AutoIt specific command Line Switches" in the help-file on how to start uncompiled scripts from within a compiled one...

[Emolas]

Wow, that was quick! I don't think I explained my problem correctly.

What I am doing is making a script that will write another script and then compile it. It sounds like a strange way of going about it but the reason behind it is that one admin has a service account with exceptional rights and he wants a script that uses it and will have the password encoded and compiled into itself. That in itself would be simple but I do not want to ever see the password (no chance of misuse accusations) so I can write a script and give it to him to run. It asks him for the password, encrypts it, and adds it to the second script. What I want to do is compile the second script after I add the password line to it.

here's a snippet:

#Include <String.au3>

$passIn = InputBox("Password", "enter password:", "", "*")
$passEnc = _StringEncrypt(1,$passIn,"encrypt",1)
$File = FileOpen("test2.au3",1)
FileWriteLine($File,"$Password = " &  "_StringEncrypt(0,""" & $passEnc & """,""encrypt"",1)")
FileClose($File)
;here I want to compile $File

[Splash]

Just include AutoIt compiler with your program.

[AdmiralAlkex]

@Emolas

You can Run() Aut2exe.exe

[Emolas]

Excellent, thank you. I always compile from within SciTE so I was unaware there was a command-line compiler.