No, it's fine. We're still working on make it easier to get started.
We don't usually test WiX development by installing the WiX bundle. This is
mostly historical because we usually had a stable version of WiX on our machine
for *work* and didn't want development to mess it up.
Instead, to test code, I'd just point my update my test .wixproj's <Import/> to
point to the "wix.targets" in the built directory. That would cause my test
.wixproj to use my dev built project and I could rebuild whatever part of WiX
necessary then rebuild the test .wixproj and repeat until I got it right.
Of course, you can also use test code to do the same but that's better
developed in WiX v4.0 and not much developed for extensions today,
unfortunately.
I don't know how Votive is tested usually. I don't do that. <smile/>
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From: Levi Wilson [mailto:l...@leviwilson.com]
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 2:24 PM
To: WiX toolset developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Building WiX
I am changing the SqlExtension. I thought that building the top-level one would
build everything (including the SqlExtension) and if I installed the Wix38.exe
I could test if my fix worked. I'm not changing anything with Votive.
I don't know all of the moving parts to this; I just wanted to make my change,
build, install what I just built and test it. Sorry if this is a basic
question, I'm just not clear on what I need to do to get this rolling.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Rob Mensching
<r...@firegiant.com<mailto:r...@firegiant.com>> wrote:
You want to build Votive? Go to the src\votive\votive#### folder and build.
You'll need the appropriate VS SDK. Bob would probably know if there was more
than that since he fixed some Votive bugs in v3.8.
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From: Levi Wilson [mailto:l...@leviwilson.com<mailto:l...@leviwilson.com>]
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 1:57 PM
To: WiX toolset developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Building WiX
Cool. So, where's a good starting point to find out how to build what I need to
build? To test what I want to test, I'd need to have Votive installed so I can
build my test app with VS to see if my fix works.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Rob Mensching
<r...@firegiant.com<mailto:r...@firegiant.com>> wrote:
The WiX build automatically turns off stuff if you don't have the pre-reqs
available. That allows one to work on some part of the WiX toolset they are
interested in without installing the huge list of dependencies necessary to
build everything.
For example, I don't work on Votive so I don't install all of its numerous
pre-reqs and my build is faster and more awesome.
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From: Levi Wilson [mailto:l...@leviwilson.com<mailto:l...@leviwilson.com>]
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 1:42 PM
To: wix-devs
Subject: [WiX-devs] Building WiX
I'm able to build WiX with msbuild, however my resulting Wix38.exe is ~10Mb vs.
the ~22Mb that is currently released.
I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but I'm not quite sure what. It didn't
install Votive either.
I tried doing the msbuild /p:Configuration=Release
/p:OFFICIAL_WIX_BUILD=C:\wix.snk but it says I don't have all versions of VS (I
only have 2010 and 2012 installed).
Thanks,
Levi
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