Thanks Richard for your quick anwser. I will try to build a bootstrapper
for the installation.
One thing I actually also tried was to open the second msi file with
Orca and save it as a merge module. I wanted to try it. It only fails at
the point where light tries to extract the cabinet form the msi. This is
not possible because it has a separate cab file. I'm guessing that even
if that would work there is no chance of getting it to work in this way.
Regards
Jeroen Davelaar
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Verzonden: dinsdag 24 juli 2007 14:21
Aan: Jeroen Davelaar; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Onderwerp: Re: [WiX-users] Combining installations
Jeroen,
A bootstrapper (also known in some places as a chainer) is the option to
use.
Microsoft Installer does not support two simultaneous installations.
(There was a custom action intended to support nested installations, but
it was deprecated long ago. Based on comments from others, I understand
this to have been because it really didn't work properly and the
problems of allowing true nested installations were greater than the
benefit from having that option available.)
WiX 3 has (I believe) a partial implementation of a bootstrapper. Other
options include dotNetInstaller
(http://www.codeproject.com/install/dotNetInstaller.asp) NSIS
(http://nsis.sourceforge.net <http://nsis.sourceforge.net/> ) and Inno
setup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php). (The last two choices are
actually full installation toolkits, but since they are not MSI based
you can't use them to build the complete setup if you want to meet
Microsoft logo requirements and/or appropriately support customers with
license management tools like Microsoft's Systems Management Server
[SMS].)
Regards,
Richard
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Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 4:40 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Combining installations
I'm looking for a good way to include/embed/combine 2 installations. I
have an installation that depends on the product of a different vendor.
The second installation is only available as an MSI package. My wish is
to fully combine the installations, so the users can also pick the
components in the second package from my installation. Is this possible?
What are the alternatives; bootstrapper or a customaction that installs
the second package?
I'm just a beginner in WiX so I would also like to know the pro's and
con's of the solutions. I hope this question hasn't been asked before
but the search server seems to be down so i'm not able to search the
mailinglists.
Thanks
Jeroen Davelaar
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