I have two more questions : 4. Can we get rid of windows XP Support ?
5. actual installer creates empty directories "promo" and "sqldrivers". Are they still required or just oldies that we can forget ? regards, sb Le 01/09/2015 23:05, Sébastien Blaisot a écrit : > Hi All, > > I'm in an effort to port Mixxx's windows installer to Wix. > I really have hard times because windows installer framework is... > well... you know. > > I primarily focused on the reproduction of the existing operation, with > some gain in this migration (working upgrades primarily). > > I am now able to build 32 and 64 bits MSI for Mixxx manually and > installing it to my computer leads to a working Mixxx \o/. > > My work is shown here : https://github.com/sblaisot/mixxx/tree/wix-installer > All changes has been made under build/wix > > What's left on my TODO list : > - include VCredist in the package (seems possible to use VCredist merge > modules if we have visual studio installed on the build server) > - Add QT's translations that I left appart from the installer now > because it's not possible to include a subset of the files in a source > directory > - Integrate with SCons > - test, test and test again > > I have a few questions to achieve this goal : > > 1. Can someone with an access to the build server show me what's in > C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Merge Modules ? > > 2. When we will have Wix installed on the build server, is it acceptable > to add the Wix installation directory to the %PATH% of the build server > and rely on it ? I didn't find a way to automatically determine where > this folder is located like we actually do in scons for NSIS. > > 3. Installation of 64bits package on 32bits machines is of course > forbidden. I'm not sure if we need to permit 32bits mixxx installation > on 64bits computer. Is anyone aware of such a use-case ? > > I really appreciate all comments about this. > > regards, > > sb > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today > http://mixxx.org > > > Mixxx-devel mailing list > Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel -- Sébastien 圣巴斯弟盎 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today http://mixxx.org Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
