I've done it and it works fine. One tricky thing was working with
PowerShell's parsing modes to get the arguments passed-in correctly (notice
the back-tick-escaped double quotes in the $msBuildArgs parameter, below).
If you manually use Candle/Light you have to worry about compiling fragments
ahead of time and passing them into Light (ugh). It's much easier to set up
a Visual Studio project and call msbuild on it. :)
Here is a stripped down version of the script I call to compile .sln files.
I haven't tested this exact code, but it should get you in the right
direction. I'd call it with a command somewhat like
/c:\path\MyInstaller.sln | c:\buildTools\compileWixSolution.ps1/ , assuming
you save it to "compileWixSolution.ps1" and the defaults for the last two
parameters are correct. You can also pipe in multiple solutions, which I
do. It will create a nice log file if msbuild had errors compiling the
project.
param
(
[parameter(
Mandatory=$true,
ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
[System.IO.FileInfo]
# The solution to compile
$file,
[System.IO.FileInfo]
# The handle to the MSBuild executable.
$msBuild = "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe",
[String]
$msbuildArgs = "`"$file`" /target:rebuild
`"/property:Configuration=Debug;Platform=x86`" /v:minimal /maxcpucount:2"
)
Process
{
$log = ("" + $file.FullName + "_msbuild.log")
if(Test-Path $log){ Remove-Item $log } # Remove old, previous log file.
# Run msbuild
$process = Start-Process $msBuild -ArgumentList $msbuildArgs -Wait
-PassThru -NoNewWindow -RedirectStandardOutput $log
if($process.ExitCode)
{ Write-Error "Error from $msBuild. See $log" }
}
Edwin G. Castro wrote
>
> Are you trying to build a wix project? The easiest way to do this is to
> simply call
>
> msbuild solution.sln
>
> Or perhaps
>
> msbuild project.wixproj
>
> Passing the usual command line arguments to msbuild.
>
> If you are truly looking to call candle.exe, light.exe, etc. then just
> call them with the appropriate arguments.
>
> What exactly is your goal?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sean Farrow [mailto:sean.farrow@.co]
>> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 7:29 PM
>> To: wix-users@.sourceforge
>> Subject: [WiX-users] using wix with powershell
>>
>> Hi All:
>> Has anybody got any experience of automating wix from powershell, either
>> from the standard interface or writing cmdlets.
>> I'm looking to automate a build system.
>> Any help appreciated.Regards
>> Sean.
>
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