1. Do we need to write a tutorial for git for WiX toolset? I'd hoped git
had taken over the world enough that we don't need a tutorial how to
download code with it. No?
2. I use an empty cmd shell most of the time. Things *should* just work but
if you have a permutation that you used that didn't work we can try to get
it fixed. To be clear, there are a *lot* of configurations that could be
tested. It's non-trivial.
3. That'd be a great thing to contribute. Can you add it to the
documentation where you thought it should have been spelled out?
4. That doesn't sound right. I have a machine with VS2008 and VS2010 and it
skips all VS2012 stuff. I now have a VS2012 machine and it skips all the
VS2008 and VS2010 stuff. What issues did you have?
5. Bummer indeed.
That's how we got what we have today. There are a lot of permutations and
I'm do not have the time to create the VMs to test them all. Instead, if
one has a configuration that doesn't work, let's capture what we can from
that and improve.
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Christopher Painter <chr...@iswix.com>wrote:
> 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 several sources (some old and outdated) to get to a point of building.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
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *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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