What would be the most efficient way to install MS Jet 3.5 on a machine with
Wix ?
I have tried to add the dlls/exes manually and registerting the relevent
ones into system32 dir.. but nothing gets placed on the end mahcine.. no
errors or anything but no files to be seen.
the section for the
conkerjoe wrote:
What would be the most efficient way to install MS Jet 3.5 on a machine with
Wix ?
Use a bootstrapper to run MDAC (then most likely jet 3.5 sp3). MDAC
most likely won't do anything on newer systems as it's in the base OS
now, but you want to be sure in case it gets run on
iv been through the hell of bootstrappers and wix in the past..
its actually easier to just hav a massive batch file install it than go
through the pain.
could you help the pain and offer a sugestion of a bootstrapper??
one of the main issues is whats to stop the user just starting the msi
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conkerjoe
Sent: 1. maj 2007 11:56
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSJET 3.5 With Wix
iv been through the hell of bootstrappers and wix in the past..
its actually easier to just hav a massive batch file install
it than go through the pain.
could you help the pain
conkerjoe wrote:
one of the main issues is whats to stop the user just starting the msi
rather than the Exe you ask them to start with an autorun.. it really needs
to be something like Installshield which wraps everything up into 1 exe so
the end user doesnt have a choice
Have a required
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conkerjoe wrote:
one of the main issues is whats to stop the user just starting the msi
rather than the Exe you ask them to start with an autorun.. it really
needs
to be something like Installshield which wraps everything up into 1
exe so
the end user doesnt have
Thomas Leigh wrote:
Would doing this mean that you can't do a distributed install, or
whatever you would call it, i.e. with GPO?
All the bootstrap solutions have this limitation. If you want to go for
'pure msi' you need to list the prerequisites in the install
instructions and let the admin
conkerjoe wrote:
iv been through the hell of bootstrappers and wix in the past..
its actually easier to just hav a massive batch file install it than
go through the pain.
could you help the pain and offer a sugestion of a bootstrapper??
I've had good results using NSIS to make a bootstrapper
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