Take a look at the candle and light code. They'll show you exactly how you
can do it. Note: that is not a public API so it can change at any time.
You'll have to keep up.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:47 AM, S. J. van Harmelen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to this list and also resonably new to WiX in general. I did read
> the book and created a few installers, but the real challenges are still
> ahead of me.
>
> I also posted this question to the users list, but I didn't receive any
> replies on it. So hence I'm going to try it myself...
>
> I'm searching for a way to use the functionality contained in candle.exe
> and light.exe, from code. My program adjust the WiX XML during runtime and
> I would like to finish the packaging steps (creating the actuall MSI)
> within that same running process.
>
> So I was wondering if there is an API of any kind available for usage like
> this? Of course I searched for it myself, but I couldn't find the needed
> info.
>
> So assuming it doesn't exist yet, I will give it a go building one. For
> that I downloaded the WiX sourse an am now trying to compile it using
> VS2012 on Windows 2008 64bit. Should this be possible? As I get a few
> errors I wonder if my setup is one that should work with the WiX source
> project. If not, then how should my dev machine look like (which OS and
> which VS)?
>
> Sorry for the long story and hope that someone can help me getting started!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sander
>
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