Thank you for clarification and pointing out I can use ResolveCab() to
copy my custom build CAB files to the final location. Sometimes I keep
myself attached to one solution that I cannot see the simpler ones :(
Our installation platform takes the binaries from our build system (also
custom build tool - builds localized binaries from Delphi sources,
builds localized help files, ...), compares them to their previous
versions and creates CAB files and MSI files as necessary. After the
work is done it uploads all the changes to our FTP server and Amazon S3
for the update system to pick it up and install it on our costumers'
computers. I don't have any experience with MSBuild so writing this as
an application was much easier solution for me.
Thank you Blair, Rob and everyone else for your work on a such great
tool as WiX is! Your work is greatly appreciated.
Ondřej Zarevúcky
On 19.1.2011 5:51, Blair wrote:
I can’t speak for Rob, but I believe he meant using MSBuild to call
the WiX toolset to build your MSI instead of using your own code
calling the WiX library directly. However, there is also no reason you
can’t call the library in the way that you are, other than maintaining
the duplication of effort of what is already done for you in Candle
and Light.
As to your override of BinderFileManager: by the time the linker is
done you can know which files need to be in which CABs and in what
order, so I don’t see why you need to override both ResolveCab() and
CopyFile(). ResolveCab() should return CabinetBuildOption.Copy with
the path to the appropriate cab you are already building (you just
need to either build that cab yourself in ResolveCab() or have already
built it before you call the binder). No empty cabinet files and no
CopyFile() override needed, and it works with both embedded and
external cabs too!
Blair
*From:*Ondrej Zarevucky [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Tuesday, January 18, 2011 4:04 AM
*To:* Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
*Subject:* Re: [WiX-devs] public sealed BinderCore class with internal
constructor? :(
You mean MSBuild to build my own copy of WiX? I've tried it twice
before and failed each time :(
There are few issues with custom built WiX:
- I would have to properly setup WiX build machine and keep it up to
date with the WiX development
- I would have to keep my WiX source code changes in the line with
official WiX development
- I would never be able to get the quality control of official WiX
releases
My current solution is to reference official wix.dll in my project and
use its public objects to build my installation package.
At first I create my XmlDocument containing the .wxs source then I
pass it to the Compiler to get an Intermediate which I pass to Linker
and Binder with my WixExtension attached. The final output is my MSI
file with no temporary files I don't need (no .wxs, no .wixobj, no
.wixpdb, no .cab) as everything is kept in memory.
The only thing I need to do is to digitally sign the resulting MSI and
add the custom built CAB files for the installation package to be
complete. CAB files are created and signed separately, because we want
to control their changes to minimize the size of online updates. Some
CAB files are even shared between different MSI databases.
Is there any issue with this use of WiX I'm not aware of?
Have a nice day
Ondřej Zarevúcky
On 18.1.2011 1:57, Rob Mensching wrote:
I'm curious, what are you doing? Is there a reason MSBuild doesn't
work... and all that?
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Ondrej Zarevucky
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
By overriding BinderFileManager.CopyFile() I've disabled creating the
empty cabinet files completely :)
The issue is solved and I'm much more happy now ;-)
I'm sorry for the emails. It helped me to summarize the problem and look
for new ideas...
Have a nice day
Ondřej Zarevúcky
On 17.1.2011 19:44, Ondrej Zarevucky wrote:
> Ok,
> I've noticed there are many more internal classes and methods used in
> the Binder :(
>
> I've moved to different solution: use the original Binder with my custom
> WiXExtension with custom BinderFileManager, which provides empty CAB
> archive and returns "CabinetBuildOption.Copy" option.
>
> Sadly the empty CAB files are still created, but at least no more disk
> space or computing power is wasted.
>
> Is there even better solution?
> Ondřej Zarevúcky
>
> On 17.1.2011 19:03, Ondrej Zarevucky wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm building installation building system for our internal use and I
>> didn't want to use the supplied Candle.exe and Light.exe, but I wanted
>> to use WiX from my .Net application. Moving compilation from Candle
code
>> to my application worked perfectly, but when I've started trying to
move
>> and modify Light code and the main Binder class to my application I've
>> run into issue that Binder uses public sealed BinderCore class, which
>> has internal constructor. How can I create new instance of BinderCore?
>>
>> I'm trying to write my own version of Binder that doesn't create CAB
>> files. I create custom CAB files manually in different part of the
process.
>>
>> Thank you for your help
>> Ondřej Zarevúcky
>>
>>
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