If you have Visual Studio, the Votive/integration that Wix provides hides most of this for you and it just works. You don't use burn to build the bundle, use candle/light to build it.
>From a rough point of view, the burn exe is the starting point for your bundle >and some "magic" happens to cab up your BA and any embedded payloads and then >it's stuck into the exe at the end of the file. The exe knows to read this >extra info, extract it, and execute the BA. -----Original Message----- From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 5:10 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to use Burn It's time for me to step on the Burn noob school bus. :-) So I have the following file named MyBundle.wxs: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='windows-1252'?> <Wix xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi' xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension";> <Bundle UpgradeCode="MY-GUID" Version="1.0.0"> <BootstrapperApplicationRef Id="WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.RtfLicense" /> <WixVariable Id="WixStdbaLicenseRtf" Value="License.rtf" /> <Chain> <PackageGroupRef Id="pkgJRE7"> <MsiPackage Id="pkgMyMSI" DisplayName="My MSI" Cache="no" Compressed="yes" Permanent="yes" SourceFile="MyMSIProductPackage.msi" Visible="yes" Vital="yes" ></MsiPackage> </Chain> </Bundle> </Wix> The file containing the Package "pkgJRE7" and MyMSIProductPackage.msi are in the same folder as MyBundle.wxs. When I run "burn.exe MyBundle.wxs", nothing happens. No error, no new files, nothing. I followed the examples here (http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/authoring_bundle_intro.htm) as closely as I could, but clearly I'm doin' it wrong. For example, how does burn know where to find pkgJRE7? The second example here (http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/bundle_author_chain.htm) doesn't have a reference to a file where MyPackage is located, so...I'm guessing it somehow magically finds it? Another thing I find confusing is the burn.exe is located in a separate (sub)folder "x86" from all the other WiX tools. I'm not sure if that's normal or not (i.e. it makes me wonder if it's the right program), but it seems strange to me. Anyway, any help at all would be appreciated, and thanks to everyone who provided advice to get this far. Alain *************************************** Alain Forget, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University afor...@cmu.edu http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/~aforget/ *************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
