Thanks a lot! Works perfectly.
Just as a sidenote: In addition to "WixToolPath", "WixTargetsPath", and
"WixTasksPath", I also had to add a property "WixExtDir" which points to the
location of the WiX extensions like "WixNetFxExtension.dll",
"WixUIExtension.dll" and so on... This might be related to the fact that I am
not defining the properties within the wixproj file, but as a property from the
command line: "MSBuild.exe ... /property:WixToolPath=${wix.dir}\"
For others having a similar question, this is my MSBuild call in NAnt to build
my installer without having to install WiX on the machine:
<exec program="${msbuild.path}">
<arg value='"${deployment.installer.project.file.path}"'/>
<arg value="/property:Configuration=${build.config}"/>
<arg value="/target:Build"/>
<arg value="/verbosity:normal"/>
<arg value="/nologo"/>
<arg value="/fileLogger"/>
<arg value="/fileloggerparameters:LogFile=MSBuildInstallerLog.txt"/>
<!-- The following lines had to be added: -->
<arg value='/property:WixToolPath=${wix.dir}\'/>
<arg value='/property:WixExtDir=${wix.dir}'/>
<arg value='/property:WixTargetsPath=${wix.targets.path}'/>
<arg value='/property:WixTasksPath=${wix.tasks.path}'/>
</exec>
Where ${wix.dir}, ${wix.targets.path}, and ${wix.tasks.path} are properties
containing the paths to the respective files/folders as described in the link
provided by Yan.
Andreas
-----Original Message-----
From: Yan Sklyarenko [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Dienstag, 4. Januar 2011 09:23
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using WiX without installing it (just copy)
This should help you:
http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/daily_builds.htm
<http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/daily_builds.htm>-- Yan
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Bosch, Andreas
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I would like to use WiX (with MSBuild) without running the WiX
> installer, but by just copying the binaries to some location. Is this
> possible?
>
> Background: We are using a NAnt script to build our projects,
> including the installers. The idea is that we could just checkout the
> source code from the repository on any computer (with MSBuild) and
> immediately run a build without having to install anything before.
> Therefore, we have added all required tools (e.g. NAnt, NUnit...) to
> the repository and use those binaries in the build script.
>
> We would like to do the same with WiX. However, we are not using the
> WiX binaries (candle, light...) directly, but we are using MSBuild
> using the *.wixproj files. Certainly, MSBuild somehow needs to know
> the tools required to build a *.wixproj file. But if I just get the
> WiX binaries from the repository, how can I tell MSBuild to use these
> binaries? Is it possible? Or do I need to copy the files to some special
> location on the client?
>
> Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!
> Andreas
>
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