Bingo. I had no idea I could pass the path to a DLL as an extension to candle & light, like this:
candle.exe -ext ./lib/WixBalExtensionExt.dll -ext WixUIExtension -ext WixUtilExtension MyBundle.wxs Somehow, I had thought only pre-packaged extensions could be referenced with -ext...although typing that out now, I realise how ridiculous that idea was. What good would extension functionality be if it couldn't reference external stuff? :-P Thanks! Alain -----Original Message----- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: May 31, 2013 12:54 To: afor...@cmu.edu; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Using WiX Extended Bootstrapper Application without Visual Studio If you are doing this via the command line, I assume it's light complaining about the extension. You need to use -ext WixBalExtension (subst whatever Neil's is here , probably need a full path) Also, in your wxs you want to include references to any custom extensions (Ex: xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension";) on the Wix element. Ref: http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/extension_usage_introduction.htm -----Original Message----- From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 11:21 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Using WiX Extended Bootstrapper Application without Visual Studio My bootstrapper UI has some weird artifacts I want to fix, and Neil Sleightholm's WiX Extended Bootstrapper Application (ExtBA, http://wixextba.codeplex.com/) seems to provide a more easily customisable UI than the native WiX bootstrapper application UI (from what I can gather...if there is documentation somewhere about customising the UI without having to completely roll my own, I'd love to see it). To use the ExtBA, Neil says, "Add a reference to WixBalExtensionExt.dll in your Visual Studio project..." However, I am not using VS, and so it is unclear how I can reference the ExtBA. For example, the example Bundle5.wxs shows this: <BootstrapperApplicationRef Id="WixExtendedBootstrapperApplication.RtfLicense" /> But WiX complains about the unresolved reference, and I can't figure out how to tell WiX that this refers to something in the WixBalExtensionExt.dll . So then I tried this instead: <BootstrapperApplication Id="WixBalExtensionExt.dll" /> WiX then complains that there needs to be at least one Payload specified for a BootstrapperApplication, but I'm not sure what to specify as a Payload. There also doesn't seem to be a way to point to a DLL from the command line. I tried the candle.exe -IWixBalExtensionExt.dll to no avail. I've also tried this, which compiles, but when executing the bundled installer, does nothing: <BootstrapperApplication Id="WixExtendedBootstrapperApplication"> <Payload Name="WixBalExtensionExt.dll" Compressed="yes" SourceFile=".\lib\WixBalExtensionExt.dll"/> </BootstrapperApplication> I then added <BootstrapperApplicationRef Id="WixExtendedBootstrapperApplication.RtfLicense" /> , but it still can't find the reference. Anyway, I've tried more stabbing in the dark, and not many results. Does anyone have experience with either using ExtBA outside of VS or referencing DLLs for WiX bootstrapper applications? Alain *************************************** Alain Forget, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University afor...@cmu.edu http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/~aforget/ *************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
