We use CruiseControl.Net as our CI Server and author the build script in
MSBuild using the build tasks that ship with WiX to invoke candle and
light to create our msi and mst files.
We then copy these files and the Installshield bootstrapper files to a
common location.
We're building a disk image for a CD so we don't package as a single
exe. Perhaps someone else can suggest how to bundle loose files into a
self extracting exe?
Kind regards,
Tim
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From: dB. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 April 2008 13:24
To: RAYMENT Tim
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] The Visual Studio 2005 BootStrapper - almost
there?
Thanks Tim,
I'm going to check this out especially since we're migrating out of
InstallShield and have all the licenses and tools. Would you share some
more detail about the build process? How do you swap the MSI to package
this in a single executable?
Thx
dB.
From: RAYMENT Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:09 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: dB.
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] The Visual Studio 2005 BootStrapper - almost
there?
Our solution is a hybrid between Installshield and WiX. We create a
basic project in Installshield and specify all the prerequisites +
supported languages. This gives us the bootstrapper plus an
Installshield msi & localized transform files (mst).
We replace these msi and mst files with the ones that our CI server
builds via WiX.
The bootstrapper part only needs updating occasionally so we're happy to
author it manually, whereas the WiX msi gets built automatically every
day.
Kind regards,
Tim
________________________________
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dB.
Sent: 08 April 2008 00:32
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] The Visual Studio 2005 BootStrapper - almost there?
I've been playing with the Visual Studio bootstrapper and I am a little
closer to what I want, but I am very disappointed with the result.
This thing produces something really not pretty, or should I say ugly. I
need to hold the user's hand through the deployment process and I also
need something that can run automated if I want it to. I need to be able
to put pretty pictures. It sounds stupid, but this looks totally
unprofessional. My model is the SQL 2005 installer, if you used its
technology you probably know that this is nothing like that. I also
looked at some commercial software, but none allow me to build a
bootstrapper without using them to build an MSI as well.
I know there has been discussions on the wix lists about bootstrappers.
I couldn't find anything conclusive on that...
Ideas?
Thx
dB.
-dB.
dblock.org <http://www.dblock.org/> / foodcandy.com
<http://www.foodcandy.com/>
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