Rob,
I agree it *is* much better then it used to be. Still, I did hit a number
of road bumps over the weekend. The problem is it's hard for me to write
up any suggestions because my conclusions could be all wrong. And it's
hard for you to identify the gaps due to you already knowing the ins and
outs. Make sense?
I think the process is pretty good as it stands now.... just more
documentation in the how to build wix needs to exist. I had to scrape
several sources (some old and outdated) to get to a point of building.
Some high level issues were:
1) Pulling source from CodePlex. Bob's blog talked about Mecurial but now
it seems to be Git. (Depending on what branch you are on?)
2) What version and bitness of vs command tools should be used? (I was
getting CreateItem task errors out of the nuget targets.)
3) It seems OneTimeWixBuildInitialization.proj has to be built as admin.
The help topic doesn't cover this.
4) It seems there are conditional compiles that are only enforced for an
"official build". Good design, but tough for a new guy that doesn't know
this. I had to turn to twitter to figure this out.
5) Others I sadly don't recall....
I guess my advice is start with a clean VM and pretend you don't know
anything about WiX and see what's involved in getting it all to build.
Regards,
Chris
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From: "Rob Mensching" <r...@robmensching.com>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 9:02 AM
To: "Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list"
<wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [WiX-devs] [SPAM] Re: Interested in helping on 3.8
Your notes and any thoughts on getting the WiX toolset build process easier
would be very useful. We've done work over last few releases to get WiX
toolset much easier to build but if there is more we can do, we should do
it. People still say there are challenges building the WiX toolset.
If you're just getting started, a really easy bug to fix might be good
place to start. #4037 (http://wixtoolset.org/issues/4037/) might be a good
one.
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Phill Hogland <phogl...@rimage.com>
wrote:
I am interested in offering any help I can provide. I am relatively new
to
wix, msi, msbuild, c# but I have too many years of doing pure
InstallScript
setups and C++ services and drivers. Please let me know how I can help
test, document, code, or whatever.
While waiting for my legal/management team to approve the assignment
agreement, approved and submitted to Outercurve this morning, in addition
to
configuring my work development system to build the debug version of Wix
3.8, at home I created a new PC (Win 7 64, but I can load other OS),
installed VS2013, VS2013 SDK, Win 7 SDK, and the latest Wix 3.8 source
code.
I have over the last several nights been trying to hack past problems with
building the full wix.proj, and keeping notes so I can report back if that
would be helpful. It wants me to install Win7 SDK (which is installed) or
VS2010 (which is not installed). So for now I am just trying to learn
more
about the build process by researching these issues. But I am happy to
refocus on anything that would be more helpful.
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