Add wix.dll as a reference/dependency to your code project and use its
classes like candle/light/etc. do depending on the operation you wish to
perform. That way you don't depend on the way any particular version of WiX
was built.
All the core functionality is contained in wix.dll.
From: Sander van Harmelen [mailto:s...@dds.nl]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:38 AM
To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Compile issues and API availability...
Hmm. Maybe you got a point there.
I was thinking about the ability to compile the (to be build) API against
the the different WiX parts. Or should I be able to reference the already
compiled wix.dll instead? Didn't have a look at that I must admit. If that
is possible I of course will not rebuild the whole toolset myself, but just
include the wix.dll in my API project.
As said I'm just starting with WiX, so I do have to get into the setup of
the tools and how they work together from a coding perspective.
Sander
From: Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com <mailto:r...@robmensching.com> >
Reply-To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
<wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net> >
Date: Wednesday, 21 November, 2012 4:03 PM
To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
<wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net> >
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Compile issues and API availability...
Depends what version of the WiX toolset you want to build. Currently, the
build expects VS2008, VS2010 and VS2012 plus several other pieces of
software (like Sandcastle) if you want to build everything.
WiX v3.7 build is a bit easier.
Why do you need to build a private version? Why can't you just use the bits
that exist?
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:03 AM, S. J. van Harmelen <s...@dds.nl
<mailto:s...@dds.nl> > wrote:
Hi Rob,
Thanks, that was what I was thinking exactly. Shouldn't be to hard I quess
:)
But my other question remains unanswered... How to compile the source
correctly? Can I compile the latest sourse on a Windows 2008 R2 64bit
machine using VS2012? I also installed the Windows 7 and .NET framework 4.0
SDK, but I still have issues getting the vanilla source compiled.
Any tips anyone? Should it work with my setup, of should I change/add
anything?
Thanks for the help!
Sander
On 21 nov. 2012, at 08:19, Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com
<mailto:r...@robmensching.com> > wrote:
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 <s...@dds.nl
<mailto:s...@dds.nl> > 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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