No. Everything in WiX toolset is x86 except for a couple very targeted
things.
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:09 AM, S. J. van Harmelen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi guys,
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> I pretty much have this working, but I notice that I now have a problem
> with the winterop.dll being a 32bit DLL and my program (which includes the
> wix.dll) is running as a 64bit process :(
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> Is there anything I can do about this? Is there a 64bit version of the
> winterop.dll available?
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> I'm using the 3.7 RC binary package by the way!
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> Hope someone can help me out or point me in the right direction...
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> Sander
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> From: Sander van Harmelen [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: donderdag 22 november 2012 21:49
> To: [email protected]; Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
> Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Compile issues and API availability...
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> Hi Blair,
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> Thanks for the info! I already tried this myself after the last mail from
> Rob and found it to work perfectly. So this makes my project quite a lot
> easier... :)
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> Thanks,
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> Sander
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> From: Blair Murri <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>, Windows Installer XML toolset developer
> mailing list <[email protected]>
> Date: Thursday, 22 November, 2012 9:36 PM
> To: 'Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list'
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Compile issues and API availability...
>
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> 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.
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> All the core functionality is contained in wix.dll.
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> From: Sander van Harmelen [mailto:[email protected]]
> 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...
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> 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.
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> 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
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> From: Rob Mensching <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
> <[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, 21 November, 2012 4:03 PM
> To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Compile issues and API availability...
>
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> 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.
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> WiX v3.7 build is a bit easier.
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> Why do you need to build a private version? Why can't you just use the
> bits that exist?
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> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:03 AM, S. J. van Harmelen <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi Rob,
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> Thanks, that was what I was thinking exactly. Shouldn't be to hard I quess
> :)
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> 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?
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> Thanks for the help!
>
> Sander
>
>
> On 21 nov. 2012, at 08:19, Rob Mensching <[email protected]> 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.
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> 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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