I think you can strike a balance that helps ramp up a new developer without
having to fully document Git. Like I said before, I think it's 95%+ there
already and it's just a few tips to speed things up.
Regarding MSBuild and .BAT files... I'm curious. You mentioned you have an
empty command shell and MSBuild isn't in the path. How do you invoke
WiX.proj then? Do you literally type
C:\windows\Microsoft.NET\FRamework........ ? I've always used very
short .BAT files to setup my environment and invoke MSBuild with the right
switches to cover frequently needed scenarios. Otherwise I agree to keep
the functionality in the MSBuild file. Do you use another technique that
I'm not familiar with?
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From: "Rob Mensching" <r...@robmensching.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 7:56 AM
To: "Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list"
<wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [WiX-devs] [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] Re: Interested
in helping on 3.8
1. Yeah, at some point, you just have to learn git. Fortunately, there are
a lot of resources out there for it. StackOverflow seemed to always end up
answering all the tricky questions I had.
2. Building with VS2013 isn't officially supported yet. However, if
you're using it and finding fixes that need to be made, those would be
great to have.
3. Can we just make the MSBuild project files do the same thing so we
don't need extra batch files? Custom batches files to save you typing are
cool but if there are things to help people get the right thing built, it'd
be nice if those were built into the project files.
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Phill Hogland <phogl...@rimage.com>
wrote:
I would just like to inject a couple of comments to this thread, based on
my
current research into using VS2013 to build the Wix 3.8 source.
1) I do not have any prior experience with git and still have not figured
it
out. I started working on it several weeks ago to get the Wix 3.8 source
and before I got it working I discovered that I could just go to
wix.codeplex.com, select the version of Wix source that I wanted and click
download to get the source. But I know I still have to figure out git at
some point in the future.
2) One of the issues in my 'VS2013 to build Wix 3.8' testing is that the
VS2013 install did not include the VS shell, so when using the standard
shell there some errors related to cl.exe is missing dependencies on
mspdb100.dll. I had noticed at work similar errors when I did not use the
VS2010 shell. So after Internet research I found that VS2010 shell runs a
bat which adds the path to this dependency to %PATH%, which was the same
step that I needed to do to get my VS2013 build to work in this regard.
3) I created build.cmd and buildInitialization.cmd scripts to make it
easier
to launch my various build tests and create logs as I work on debugging
different build issues. The buildInitialization.cmd script has code that
only calls the msbuild OneTimeWixBuildInitialization.proj if the user is
an
elevated user, and if not reports that the script failed because elevated
privileges are needed. There is more work needed to make these scripts
work
at any path, but maybe at some point we could help users in this manner.
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